Pierre Trofimoff Art

Oil on canvas by Pierre TROFIMOFF (1925-1996), France, 1992. "STILL LIFE WITH BASKET". Another version of this still life, very close to this one and entitled "Still life with the blue wall", is found in the book "Trofimoff" by Jacqueline de Grandmaison, Editions Vision sur les Arts, Béziers, 1978, page 29, full-page color illustration. This last work will have been used as cover page for the invitation 4 pages-card to the exhibition which took place from October 18 to November 10, 1978 at La Cadrerie - Galerie Edouard Chaix-Bryan, 23 rue du Docteur Fiolle in Marseille. With frame: 82x71 cm - 32.3x28 inches ; without frame: 65x54cm - 25.6x21.3 inches. 5F format. Signed "Trofimoff" and dated "92". Titled on the back (see photos). Pierre Trofimoff was born October 20, 1925 in Marseille in a very traditional bourgeois family, distant Polish origin. Very early, he declares a desire to become a painter. At 10, he entered the Melizan Institute in Marseille. His teenage vacation, he spent them in the house of his grandmother in Revest-les-Eaux near Toulon. In the countryside, he observes many artists drawing or painting on the motif, like the painter Eugène Baboulène and the sculptor Dionisi. Later, he will meet on the same place the engraver Decaris. Little encouraged by his family in his vocation, he was denied entry to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille. However, he will go there as a free listener every Thursday It's the war. He is an inveterate museum-goer and deprives himself of cinema to buy books of Art. He likes Puget, Loubon, Delacroix, Courbet. Later Van Gogh, Soutine, Modigliani, Leprin, Pascin, Marquet, Dufu, Braque and Verdilhan by which he will be influenced. At the end of the war, Trofimoff works as a leather and hides broker. But simultaneously, he works his painting. He paints a lot in the company of Pierre Gontard and often goes to Meiffren's studio, cours Estienne d'Orves. There, the poet Boissin, the painters Jammes, Helene Martin and the actors of the troupe of the Galion d'Or meet. Trofimoff also meets Louis Pons, Raffaelli, Pierre Ambrogiani and Antoine Ferrari...