Boris Anrep in his Studio, 65 Boulevard Arago
1949 · Oil paint on canvas
support: 653 x 501 mm frame: 753 x 605 x 67 mm
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Pierre Roy
French, 1880
PaintingSurrealismRealism
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None documented
22
Institutional Exhibitions
49
Works in Collection
103
Assets Indexed
3
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- • Surrealism
- • Realism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972–1973
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Birds and Beasts from the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Modern Art in Your Life
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Pierre Roy painted oil compositions that positioned everyday domestic objects and architectural fragments in dreamlike arrangements, inhabiting a space between representation and abstraction. A French painter associated with Surrealism and magical realism, Roy worked from the 1920s onward, developing a distinctive approach to still life and interior space that shaped European modernism. His precise tableaux resisted easy categorization, oscillating between the quotidian and the hallucinatory.
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