Pierre Dumont (1884-1936) La Cathédrale, oil on canvas, cm. 65 x 81 x 2; signed lower left.

Provenance: Paris, France, private collection

Pierre Dumont (1884-1936), was a French painter of the Rouen School. Dumont, under the supervision of Philippe Zacharie, studied at the Lycée Corneille with Robert Antoine Pinchon and Marcel Duchamp. When the artist was 22 years old, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Legrip, where his strong temperament as a colorist was confirmed. Displeased with the contemporaneous Parisian art scene, Dumont took it upon himself to create a parallel salon and reunited Group XXX. At the beginning, the artist was one of the most active members of the Society of Rouen Artists. A versatile artist, Dumont painted still-lifes, landscapes, cityscapes and portraits of mostly well-known current artists. He exhibited with such artists as Picabia, Léger, Dufy, Duchamp, Villon, Guilbert, Louvrier, Luce, Utrillo, and Vlaminck.