Eduard Pignon Biography
(Bully 1905 - Paris 1993). Son of miners, in Paris from 1927, he worked as a bricklayer, laborer, lithographer, attending evening courses and the Association of Revolutionary Artists and Writers. In 1936 he met Picasso, to whom he was linked by a deep friendship. Involved in the Resistance, in 1944 he participated in the Salon de la libération and was among the founders of the Salon de mai. In 1951 he won first prize at the São Paulo Biennial. In his works, from those of the Thirties, with bright colors and firmly constructed volumes (Dead Worker, 1936, Paris, Musée national d'art moderni; new version in 1952), to those after 1948, more fluid in the brushstroke but full always of expressive violence, the contact with objective reality remains constant, translated into forms, spaces and movements that are never descriptive. Alongside subjects of social inspiration he has developed (also in ceramic) various thematic series: Olive Trees, Cockfighting, Warriors' Heads, Reapers and Nudes.
