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Vintage painting on canvas "La partie de Polo" by Pierre Bosco, 1960s
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Pierre Bosco Oil on canvas signed lower right "La partie de Polo" Circa 1960 Pierre Bosco's interest in art began at an early age, and his first works show a natural sensitivity to color and a desire to give volume to images, which would later become his artistic signature. When he discovered the paintings of Cézanne, Pissarro, Gauguin and Rouault, he was convinced that his future lay in Paris. There, he met the artists Pierre Bonnard, André Derain, Aristide Maillol, Edouard Vuillard and his brother-in-law, the Nabi painter Ker-Xavier Roussel, who became his great spiritual master and with whom he discovered his own artistic personality. In the 1950s, he began to enjoy greater success when he took part in an exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, where his paintings were acclaimed. The following year, he exhibited fifty paintings at the Galerie du Hérisson to an enthusiastic audience. The French press associated the paintings of this period with a "spellbinding magic" and, according to the poet Guy Lavaud, "Bosco is a powerful painter and a visionary". For three consecutive years, the painter was shortlisted for the prestigious Musée des Arts Décoratifs prize in Paris. In 1956, Bosco signed a fifteen-year exclusive representation contract with the renowned Galerie de l'Elysée in Paris. By this stage in his career, Pierre Bosco had reached a maturity appreciated by connoisseurs and the press alike, who were unanimous in praising his "dazzling visions"; Le Figaro considered him "one of the greatest painters of his generation" and the New York Herald saw him as "the latest Picasso in perspective, and very much in vogue" (May 14, 1957). Bosco has now earned his place among the greatest names in contemporary painting: Chagall, Braque, Picasso, Matisse; his paintings are part of permanent museum collections. In 1964, he exhibited at the Max Bodner Gallery in New York; his paintings were shown alongside those of Marie Laurencin, Picasso, Signac, Pissarro, Renoir and Rouault. In April 1967, Bosco was awarded the Silver Medal of the City of Paris, and in June he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Pierre Bosco occupies a special place among American and European collectors, particularly in France and Italy, but also in Scandinavia. Many Hollywood celebrities, including Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Jack Palance, as well as former French president Georges Pompidou, have been collectors of Bosco's paintings. His works are also in the collections of the Musée de la Ville de Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Tel Aviv, Caramulo (Portugal), Beaverbrook Art Gallery (NB, Canada), Toledo Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, etc.
Very good condition
Very good condition
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ConditionVery goodColorsMulti ColorMaterialTextileNumber of items1Height60 cmWidth73 cmDepth2 cm