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Edgard Pillet

"The man who takes the footpaths encourages the frenzy of a gourmand life."

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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.

When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!

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Notes of biography

Edgard Pillet is a student of the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux (1928) and of Fine Arts in Paris (1931). His artistic activity is important in the artistic life of post war years. Secretary General of the magazine "Art d'aujourd'hui", he collaborates alongside the “Gazette des lettres”. With Jean Dewasne, he co-founds the Abstract Art Workshop (Academy de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, 1950); this place has a definite influence on young painters of the time.
In 1951, he directs "Genesis", an abstract film. Pillet settles for a long period in the United States where he becomes a professor at the University of Louisville (Kentucky), then at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Painter, sculptor, architect, printmaker, muralist, working in the art of tapestry designer, he participates in numerous group exhibitions and many solo exhibitions are dedicated to him in France and abroad. He receives several major awards.
First, neo-Cubist, one has to situate the evolution of Pillet towards abstraction around 1948. He is probably one of the first promoters of geometric abstraction, and remains quite faithful to it. Often made of a quite severe elaboration, his works show a great richness of invention. The circle, abstract symbol of the sun, is recurrent in his work; it flourishes through it own characteristics’ reliefs ("Les creusets") where the sobriety of monochrome is appropriate
The commitment of Pillet in Art, in all the forms he chooses to be attached, is existential. Man of great appetite, he is an artist constantly in search of the divine. Born in 1912 in Gironde, Edgard Pillet dies in Paris in 1996.

Artists on display

The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.

Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.

We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.

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Complete work(s)

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Le catalogue raisonné en cours de réalisation : https://edgardpillet.fr/index.php All the complete works

Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « Edgard Pillet », Julien Alvard, Collection Prisme, 1952
  • « Divergences », R.V. Gindertael, cat. d'expo., Galerie Arnaud, 1954
  • « Edgard Pillet », Roger Bordier, José-A. Franca, Ed. G. Fall, Paris, 1967
  • « Collection of the Esther and Jalo Sithola », collectif, Alvaar Alto museo, 1992
  • « Edgard Pillet, Creusets et Plumes », S. Guillaume, Coll. Tambour de soie, Paris, 1995
  • « Edgard Pillet », Françoise Monnin, Ed. Fall, Paris, 1996
  • « L'œuvre d'E. Pillet », D.E.A. d'histoire de l'Art, M. Ducourant, Paris IV Sorbonne, 1999
  • « Edgard Pillet », Serge Lemoine, Marc Ducourant, Ed. RMN, 2001
  • « Edgard Pillet et l'Amérique », F. Monnin, Ed. La Livre d'Art Iconofolio, 2014
  • « Edgard Pillet - Du village natal à l'Abstraction », V. Auriol, Ed. Libre Label, 2018
To read from the artist :
  • « Manifeste pour un Atelier d'Art Abstrait », Parisi, 1950
  • « Beata solitudine », Ville Gardini, Gorlich Editore, Milano, 1970
Website :
www.edgardpillet.fr/

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+ Stamp

Stamp by Edgard Pillet

fictional stamp

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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.

When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!

Discover all the stamps


Art movements

+ SCHOOL OF PARIS / 1945-1960 / Jean Degottex, Georges Mathieu, Nicolas de Staël, etc.
+ NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
+ MODERN SCULPTURE / 1930-1970 / William Kenneth Armiage, Constantin Brancusi, Anthony Caro, Naum Gabo, Pablo Gargallo, Isamu Noguchi, etc.
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See & discover

Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past.

These pages will undoubtedly make it possible for some of you to associate an image with its title or the other way round, for others it will be a good time to discover more on such and such artist. For the sake of confidentiality – the pieces being no longer available – we won't display neither their numbering or their price. For whatever reason, make sure to visit this amazing art database with to date 6441 online works just for your pleasure! Michelle Champetier

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