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 and subsequently studied painting with Joseph Delattre. Dumont founded the ''Groupe des XXX'' (1907), and along with Robert Antoine Pinchon, Yvonne Barbier, and Eugène Tirvert founded the Société Normande de Peinture Moderne (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 ...

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and

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. He turned towards

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during this period and played a crucial role in the organization of the ''Salon de la

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'' 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 ()

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