Reflections - Oil On Canvas Pierre Dumont

Reflections - oil on canvas signed lower left Pierre Dumont and dedicated. Beautiful work by this artist with a beautiful career, the light and reflections on the water and this edge of the pond, with a palette of colors specific to the artist are conducive to a treatment on the edge of abstraction. 73x63 cm with frame and 55.5 x 46.5 cm canvas. Pierre Dumont (1884-1936) French painter born in Paris. He lived his youth from 1887 in Rouen where he met Marcel Duchamp, Robert Antoine Pinchon, Maurice Louvrier, he attended the studio of Joseph Delattre. Robert Antoine Pinchon and Pierre Dumont influenced each other, the two artists being brilliant colorists. Dumont was part of the "Académie de Rouen", his early works were influenced by Van Gogh and Cézanne and were in the tradition of the Rouen School, but his style would evolve towards a kind of Fauvist abstraction. In 1907, Pierre Dumont initiated the creation of the Groupe des XXX, thirty independent artists including Raoul Dufy, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Pinchon, Vlaminck, this avant-garde group would take the name of Société Normande de Peinture Moderne in 1908. Dumont would participate in the exhibition of La Section d'Or organized in 1912 in Paris by Jacques Villon, this period would be that of his installation in Paris where he would become friends with Francis Picabia, André Lhote and Juan Gris. He participated in the Rétrospective des Indépendants in 1926. His works are present in many museums and public collections, notably in France, in Paris: Musée de Montmartre and Musée National d'Art Moderne. Aurillac, Cantal Prefecture Hotel, Caen, Lower Normandy Regional Council, Painting in Normandy Collection. Dijon, Museum of Fine Arts; Menton, Museum of Fine Arts; Rouen, Museum of Fine Arts; Troyes, Museum of Modern Art; in Switzerland in Geneva, Petit Palais Museum. In Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, Consulate General of France, in the United States Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin.