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SUPERB GOUACHE FROM 1961 FROM THE ARTIST'S NEW YORK PERIOD.
TRAVELING EXHIBITION LABEL IN EASTERN COUNTRIES ON THE BACK.
Painter born on August 1, 1920 in Châteauroux, PICHETTE is one of the important players in the lyrical and informal abstract movement of the post-war Paris school.
It was in 1942 that he began painting figurative paintings and then went through a Cubizing period like most painters of his generation.
In 1947, he exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Surindépendants, the same year he left for Italy and stayed several months in Rome. His beginnings were encouraged by Gino Severini, Alberto Magnelli and Jacques Villon.
He worked in the Cinécittà studios, where he created his first abstract works tinged with surrealism.
In 1950, he exhibited at the Vth Salon des Réalités Nouvelles.
In 1952, he obtained a scholarship and went to the Netherlands where he became a resident of the Descartes house in Amsterdam, he became familiar with the works of Pietr Mondrian and Georges Vantongerloo.
In 1952-1953, he exhibited at the Salon d’Automne.
In 1960, he moved to New York where he met Sam Francis and Calder. He was also passionate about jazz and became friends with great musicians.
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