Lucien-marie Pillot - Landscape With An Ancient Temple And Cypress Trees - Italy -

This view does not seem to us to be scrupulously surveyed on an ancient sitebut rather imagined as an ideal Mediterranean landscape.It is composed of allegorical elements: cypress and temple, sun and sea,whose lines of force clash between dramatic verticality and tranquilquiet horizontality. Diffused light lends coherencethe view the timeless power of the

Lucien-Marie Pillot was a painter and poster artist from the Franche-Comté region, born on January 22January 1882 in Vesoul. A student of Félix-Henri Giacomotti and Léon Bonnat, he joined the Société des artistes français in 1908.

In 1910, Au bord de l'abime won him the Brizard prize awarded by theAcadémie des Beaux-Arts. This prize was awarded to an exhibitor28 years of age exhibiting at the Salon, the first year a landscape, with or without a figure, and the second, a marine.

Deeply attached to the Franche-Comté region where he lives, he assiduouslyhe assiduously depicts its Jura peaks and the banks of the Loue River.A vibrant tribute to nature, willingly relying on the effects of light, his views are devoid of any human presence.

Pillot's works also bear witness to stays in Paris, Normandy, Brittany and Italy.