PECHERIE DE CETACES
Huile sur toile, 1925
41,5 x 33 cm
Pierre ROY (1880 – 1950) at the borders of Surrealism, followed by the Catalogue raisonne of his work.
SUMMARY
At the borders of Surrealism, where stand so many artists, Pierre Roy is a specific case examined in this study. In a first step, analysis of many unpublished documents, mainly letters wrote down by the artist, allowed to draw up a monograph never realised before. Chronological markers marking out personal and pictorial itinerary of the artist has been defined and used in our work.
In a second step, Pierre Roy's work is exhaustively analysed. Ways of appearance, the genesis, the relation to visual inspiration sources, the specificity of his work are enlighten. Widely beyond the single connection with the surrealists, by looking to the cultural material, the period and the various emerging artistic movements, the artist and his work are, then, relocated within an European view and, into an enlarged artistic backdrop, within an across-Atlantic context. Finally, opinions of the critics, with their own motivation and their impact to the ways Pierre Roy has been perceived, his work has been received and is resisting to time, are reviewed. On top of this exhaustive study as a last part, a Catalogue raisonne of the work of Pierre Roy, such work having never been made before, has been produced.
