Lucien-marie Pillot - Saint-malo, Last Light - Around 1940 - Brittany

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

In 1910, with Au bord de l'abime, he won the Brizard prize awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts. This prize was awarded to an exhibitor under 28 years of age who exhibited a landscape, with or without a figure, at the Salon, in the first year, and a marine in the second.

This prize was awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Deeply attached to the Franche-Comté region where he spent his life, he assiduously represented its Jura peaks and the banks of the Loue. A vibrant tribute to nature, willingly relying on lighting effects, his views are devoid of any human presence.

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

Our painting is an interesting testament to Pillot's art and the extreme modernity he sometimes displayed. This Malouin shoreline instantly brings to mind Spilliaert's works. We find the same science of framing and lines, the attention paid to the moment of the day when the light declines, the impression of solitude. But its poetry is quite different. Less sombre, our painting is the result of contemplation, not obsession. The soft contrast of frankly juxtaposed colors is more reminiscent of Vallotton's legacy.