Pierre Tal Coat (1905-1985) left a remarkable body of work in painting, sculpture and printmaking, admired by the greatest artists and poets of the twentieth century. From his figurative and expressionist beginnings to the boldness of the abstract paintings of his maturity, Tal Coat worked to restore the deep agreement between painting and nature, through the space, the material, the light and the color of his paintings, a pictorial research constantly renewed with freedom.
To the proclamations of the Schools or to the academic categories, he preferred to listen to nature, to walk by being with the listening of all, to seek the intrinsic agreement of its painting with the world. Pierre Tal Coat has also known the friendship and recognition of other great names of the twentieth century: Balthus, Jean Bazaine, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Alberto and Diego Giacometti, Francis Gruber, André Masson, Joan Miró, Joan Mitchell and Jean-Paul Riopelle, Nicolas de Staël, Zao Wou-Ki. Numerous writers have also encountered his work - André du Bouchet, Georges Duthuit, Philippe Jaccottet, Henri Maldiney, Wallace Stevens - as well as the curators of the great museums who have supported him - Bernard Dorival, Jacques Lassaigne, Jean Leymarie, Georges Salles, James Johnson Sweeney.
Tal Coat's work has been shown in the most important museums as well as at the Documenta of Kassel I and II, the Venice Biennale, the Grand Palais in Paris and the International Biennale of Sao Paulo. In France, it is kept at the Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, at the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, at the Musée Picasso d'Antibes, at the Musée Cantini in Marseille, at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence and abroad at the Royal Museums of Belgium, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Mons and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In agreement with his daughter and successor Pierrette Demolon-Tal Coat, the Christophe Gaillard Gallery represents since 2019 the work of Pierre Tal Coat in France.