Abstract Composition By James Pichette

Large and beautiful work on paper by James Pichette. Signed lower right and dated 62. Size of the subject alone: 46/61 cm count about twenty centimeters more for the framing and the pass everywhere. Careful shipping. Brother of Henri Pichette, famous poet and playwright, James Pichette was born in 1920 in Indre (Châteauroux). He moved to Paris immediately after the war and hesitated for a time between acting and painting. It will be painting. Eager to see and learn, to store impressions, he traveled, notably to Italy, and in 1952 obtained a scholarship and studied in Amsterdam (he became attached to the work of Mondrian). He discovered Spain, Tunisia, Germany and other countries. In 1960, he met Sam Francis and Calder in New York. Although he had already shown his art at that time in numerous salons and other group exhibitions, the first exhibition entirely devoted to him took place in 1949, in Paris. James Pichette began his work as a painter in the figurative way, went through a cubizing period like most of the young painters of his generation. Around 1947, he produced his first abstract works, tinged with surrealism. Later, from the 1960s (after his trip to New York), his painting left a large place for gesturality and generous impasto, now situated between lyrical abstraction and more structured composition. From 1968, circular shapes were introduced into his compositions, working his canvas or his paper with thin flat areas of color. James Pichette, concerned man, warm man, died in Paris in 1996