Tal Coat

Born in Nantes in 1905 under the name of Pierre Louis Jacob, Tal-Coat began his career in figuration, influenced by the Breton landscape and traditional painting. Very quickly, he freed himself from realistic representation to explore abstract textures, shapes, and rhythms. His first prints and paintings demonstrate a profound interest in light, line, and movement, heralding his future mastery of abstraction.

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In the 1940s and 1950s, Tal-Coat joined Parisian avant-garde circles and was part of the dialogue with theAmerican abstract expressionism and European lyrical abstraction. He developed a pictorial language based on The materiality of paint, using impasto, scraping, and glazes to create vibrant surfaces. Each gesture becomes an act of creation where chance and control meet to produce an intense and singular work. Alongside painting, Pierre Tal-Coat explores printmaking and drawing with the same inventive rigor. His wood and copper engravings, often abstract but always musical in their composition, extend his research on light, rhythm and the density of matter. For him, drawing became a space for experimentation and invention, where each line conveys the expressive force of his gesture.

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Tal-Coat perfects a style characterized by the freedom of gesture, the harmony of colors and the power of the material, while maintaining a close relationship with nature and the landscape. His works, whether paintings, prints or drawings, reflect a constant quest for The essentials and the intensity. Pierre Tal-Coat's works are now exhibited and preserved in the largest French and international institutions, in particular the National Museum of Modern Art — Pompidou Center, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris And the MoMA New York. His research on lyrical abstraction continues to inspire collectors and lovers of modern art.

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