Nude, Drawing By Pierre Girieud 1876-1948

Very beautiful pencil drawing dating from the 1930s signed lower right annotation upper right Pierre GIRIEUD exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1905 one of his masterpieces whose colors caused a scandal, six months later at the Salon d'Automne He exhibited 5 paintings in the famous room VII at the Salon d'Automne in 1905, called "Cage aux Fauves" The painter that I am proposing to you is a true Fauve, he was always considered as such by the critics of the time Like his peers Derain, Othon Friesz, he calmed down after 1910, returning to the ranks of expressionist painters His works are featured in the greatest International Museums (L'Hermitage, Pompidou, L'Annonciade, Granet, Fondation Regards de Provence, etc...). Girieud made his debut in Montmartre at the time of the great excitement of the beginning of the century, he participated in the famous hoax of Boronali, the donkey who painted a picture with his tail He exhibited at Berthe WEIL, KANHWEILER, ROSENBERG, he became friends with KANDINSKI from 1904 then with Franz MARC. He was the first Frenchman to adhere to the principles of the New Association of Munich Artists