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Edgard Pillet (French, 1912-1996)
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Edgard Pillet
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Edgard Pillet
MIROIRS
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Biography |
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Edgard Pillet was a prominent exponent of post-war geometric abstraction. In 1950 he founded with Jean Dewasne the influential Atelier d’Art Abstrait, and exhibited with the Espace group. He held many solo exhibitions, including at the galleries Denise René, and Arnaud, in Paris; Drian, London; Artek, Helsinki; del Março, Lisbon; Apollo, Brussels; Hybler, Copenhagen; K.B., Oslo; del Fiore, Milan; LAFA, New York; aswell as group shows including at National Museum of Modern Art, Rome; Cincinatti Art Museum; and the Museum of Modern Art, São Paolo; aswell as Washinigton, Tokyo, Saigon, Bangkok, Djakarta, Algiers. From 1955-57 he lived in America and took up a position at the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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Pillet is also respected for his literary contributions, not least as editor of the avant-garde journal Art Aujourd’hui. In 1951 he furthermore produced an abstract film; and in 1954 published a set of short “stories” called “ideograms” which took the form of geometrical compositions. |
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Prizes: Prix Abd-El-Tiff, 1939; Prix de la Jeune Sculpture, Paris, 1948; Prix de la Critique, Brussels, 1953. |
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The artist is represented in the many museums: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Paris; Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble; Musée Ateneum, Helsinki; Finland Museum, Imatra; National Museum, Algiers; National Museum, Djakarta; Museum of Modern Art, Eilat; Museum of Modern Art, New York. |
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