In 1942, he joined the Lyon School of Fine Arts and became friends with André Cottavoz, Jean Fusaro, Paul Philibert-Charrin, Jacques Truphémus... and met his future wife, Françoise Juvin. It was in 1948 that this group of friends organized a first exhibition in Lyon. With passion and enthusiasm, they rejected all known artistic trends. Provocative and laughing, these young people - all under thirty - did not accept any technique that ended in ism. This is how they invented "Sanzism" (without -ism), a new school that did not want to be one! Pierre Coquet always painted with the same rigor and perpetuated this freedom of pictorial expression. Whatever the subjects treated (seascapes, still lifes, nudes, landscapes), his sensitive and discreet ranges of colors are surprisingly personal to him and are his signature. Everything is said in a few words: "I have no favorite subject. I like to paint what surrounds me: objects on a pedestal table, a few fruits placed at the bottom of a bowl or this faded bouquet forgotten on a table... I try to transmit through a painting the emotion that I felt or the memory that I have of such a thing or such a place." Thus, Pierre Coquet allows us to appreciate a large part of his painting made of underlying emotions, truths and modest intimacy. Pierre Coquet is clearly in the lineage of Pierre Bonnard, Giorgio Morandi or Edouard Vuillard, but his work also shows how much he was enriched by contact with Gustav Bolin, Alexandre Garbell and Pierre Lesieur. Type:Mixed composition Style:1940-1960 Genre:Abstract Characteristics:Signed