| (....) - The best thing about this exhibition, which also includes small Chabaud interiors of good quality, is to have brought together these two great and faithful friends that were Pierre Girieud and Alfred Lombard. (....) You must also admire a second painting by Alfred Lombard, a Woman in an interior. This canvas is hung in front of a female nude by Pierre Girieud.
About this painter, to whom we will return shortly, we must already cite a reflection by Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp known Girieud before the First World War. In his interviews with Pierre Cabannes (Ed. Pierre Belfond) he was surprised that the emerging glory of this artist had died out so quickly: "there was, he said, in Girieud, a hieraticism that fascinated me". |