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Pierre Cayol
"I seek nothing, I go and I receive."
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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
Pierre Cayol is born in Salon-de-Provence in 1939. His encounter in Eygalières with Marcel Féguide (1956) of whom he becomes the pupil, has a great influence on his career. He studies art at the School of Decorative Arts of Grenoble, and continues with classes in Industrial Aesthetic at the School of Applied Arts in Paris (1960-1962). After a short stint at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, he follows the courses of the Julian Academy in Paris (1964-1966). Drawing soon becomes for him a sort of second nature. Thus, drawing is the solid foundation of his work. From an early age, Pierre Cayol attaches a great place to graphic work; it can be explained by these two particularities : the attachment of the artist to painters who have both draw and engrave such as Rembrandt, Goya, Daumier, Braque and Picasso, to name a few.
After a first small exhibition when he is only 25 years old (Salon of Montsauve, 1964) and a first solo exhibition that same year (Arles), many exhibitions, personal and collective, show his work over the years in France and abroad (Canada, Switzerland, Korea, Japan, USA, Italy, etc.). In addition, Pierre Cayol becomes associative member of the Salon of Autumn in Paris in 1984.
Pierre Cayol has built a large graphic work; if he has achieved many individual prints, the bulk of his prints and his linocuts are designed to illustrate his fellow poets and writers (Marc Alyn, Yves Berger, Jean Joubert, Joseph Pacini, Nohad Salameh, Jean Rousselot, among others). Pierre Cayol is passionate of poetry and he has naturally contributed to more than fifty artists' books, works of bibliophiles.
Passionate by Indians of North America, Pierre Cayol stays regularly (several months per year for almost 20 years!) in the Indian territories of Arizona and New Mexico, among Navajos, Apaches, Hopis and Pueblos among which he has many friends and where he also works in harmony with "Mother Earth". The great writer and poet N. Scott Momaday, his friend, writes: "He sees the landscape like Indians do, he feels it deeply, in his spiritual dimension, admires it with reverence." With his wife, Marie, they are authors of a beautiful book published by Editions du Rocher 2005: "Apache - The people of Women painted in white".
Pierre Cayol lives and works in Tavel (near Avignon, Gard) since 1968. He is a young man of 70 years with wondering eyes, full of kindness and discretion, aware of the beauty of the world, a man ready to give and receive, a man of peace and harmony.
"Will we ever live, will we ever walk in this picture that looks like you?" writes Charles Baudelaire.
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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To read about the artist :
- « Dix ans d’arts graphiques, 1960-1970 », Christian Halz, Monte-Carlo, 1970
- « Le Salon d'Automne de ... », P.-F. Barrer, Ed. Arts et Images du Monde, 1992
- « Album Cayol », Marie Cayol, Imp. Gard Rhodanien, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, 1993
- « Structure et puissance des lumières », P. Lahaye, ill. P. C., avril-mai 1997
- « Mémoires provisoires », Marc Alyn, Ed. L'Harmattan, 2002
- « Cayol - Le fou d’Amérique », Marc Alyn, in Aujourd’hui Poème, n° 83, 2007
- « Cayol - Peindre le désir », Joseph Pacini, Ed. Aux depens de l'artiste, Tavel, 2008
- « Navajo Mountain », Marie Cayol, couv. P. Cayol, Ed. Cardère, 2010
- Pierre Cayol », cat., Galerie Atezart, Avignon, 2013
- « Le livre pauvre - Donation Daniel Leuwers », Musée Paul Valéry, Sète, 2017
To read from the artist :
- « Apaches », Pierre & Marie Cayol, Ed. Le Rocher, Paris, 2006
- « P. C., le fou d'Amérique », entretien M. Alyn, in Aujourd'hui Poème n°83, sept. 2007
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Stamp by Pierre Cayol
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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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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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