Pierre Jean Baptiste Louis Dumont (29 March 1884, in 5th arrondissement,

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– 8 April 1936, in

) more commonly known as Pierre Dumont, was a French painter of the Rouen School. He was schooled at the

Lycée Pierre-Corneille The Lycée Pierre-Corneille (also known as the Lycée Corneille) is a state secondary school located in the city of Rouen, France. Originally founded by the Jesuits in 1593, the school was secularized following the 1905 French law on the Separa ...

and subsequently studied painting with

Joseph Delattre Joseph Delattre (20 August 1858, Déville-lès-Rouen – 6 August 1912) was a French painter of the Rouen School. He exhibited at the Fifth Impressionist Exhibition of 1880. Life and career Delattre was a faithful friend Charles Angrand and ...

. Dumont founded the ''Groupe des XXX'' (1907), and along with

Robert Antoine Pinchon Robert Antoine Pinchon (, 1 July 1886 in Rouen – 9 January 1943 in Bois-Guillaume) was a French Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (''l'École de Rouen'') who was born and spent most of his life in France. He was consist ...

, Yvonne Barbier, and Eugène Tirvert founded the

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(1909). From 1910 to 1916 Dumont lived at the

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becoming friends with

Juan Gris José Victoriano González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris (; ), was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic ge ...

Max Jacob Max Jacob (; 12 July 1876 – 5 March 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic. Life and career After spending his childhood in Quimper, Brittany, he enrolled in the Paris Colonial School, which he left in 1897 for an artistic ca ...

and

Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire) of the Wąż coat of arms. (; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of t ...

. He turned towards Cubism during this period and played a crucial role in the organization of the ''Salon de la

Section d'Or The Section d'Or ("Golden Section"), also known as Groupe de Puteaux or Puteaux Group, was a collective of Painting, painters, sculptors, poets and critics associated with Cubism and Orphism (art), Orphism. Based in the Parisian suburbs, the grou ...

'' at the Galerie La Boétie in Paris, October 1912.''La Section d'or'', 1912-1920-1925, Cécile Debray, Françoise Lucbert, Musées de Châteauroux, Musée Fabre, exhibition catalogue, Éditions Cercle d'art, Paris, 2000.François Lespinasse, ''Robert Antoine Pinchon: 1886–1943'', 1990, repr. Rouen: Association les amis de l'École de Rouen, 2007, Une ville pour l’impressionnisme, Monet, Pissarro et Gauguin à Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, 2010
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Bibliography

*Pierre Dumont, ''Les arts des Indépendants'', Les Hommes du Jour, April 1912 *François Lespinasse, ''L'École de Rouen'', Fernandez, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, 1980 *François Lespinasse, ''L'École de Rouen'', Lecerf, Rouen, 1995 () *''L'École de Rouen de l'impressionnisme à Marcel Duchamp 1878-1914'', Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, 1996 ()

References

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