Pierre Roy (1880 - 1950) — Auction price
Lot 894 Pierre Roy (1880-1950)
Pierre Roy (1880 - 1950)
La Collection Sam Josefowitz: Dessins et Gravures de l'Ecole de Pont-Aven Online
Pierre Roy
10.08.1880 - 26.09.1950
Italy, France
Pierre Roy was a French surrealist painter. He is known for his realistically painted compositions of ordinary objects in unexpected arrangements. After gaining his baccalauréat at the local school he joined a firm of architects before enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Disappointed with the course, he left to work on the designs for the 1900 Paris Exposition.
His work is classed as surrealism, and is based on assemblages of everyday objects such as shells, vegetables and fruits, woollen reels, ears and seeds, eggs and ribbons arranged to create poetic images.
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La Collection Sam Josefowitz: Dessins et Gravures de l'Ecole de Pont-Aven Online
Date: 25.10.2023 14:00 UTC +01:00
Number of lots in the catalog: 139