| Jean Pierre Serrier | ||
| Birth Date: 1934 |
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| Death Date: 1989 Artist Gallery |
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| Jean-Pierre Serrier was born in 1934 in 'Montparnasse', a Parisian neighborhood frequented by artists. His parents came from Lorraine in the East of France. His mother, Solange, is a native of Blénod les Toul, a village located about 30 km west of Nancy, France. His father, Louis, was born in Pagny on Meuse, a nearby village.
Serrier is considered a French Surrealist and was known for his paintings of harlequins, landscapes, figural groups, and circuses. He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris, France.
Serrier was in the military in Algeria from 1956 to 1958 and produced many thematic works on war. In 1958, back in Paris, he met Pierre Seghers an editor who bought some of his works on 1'Algérie and commissioned 30 more drawings to illustrate his poems. In 1961, he traveled for the first time in the United States. His paintings were exhibited in a Gallery on 57th Street in New York.
He went to Italy in 1963, where he became impressed by the characters in the "Commedia dell'arte". Mr. and Mrs. Garbisch-Chrysler bought several of his paintings and hired him to paint their portraits.
In 1968-1969 he exhibited his works at the gallery in Geneva and received critical acclaim. One of Serrier’s important works is the triptych of Genesis: The Tower of Babel Sodom and Gomorrah, and Eden. In 1976, he was elected as a member of the jury at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.
In 1984, an exhibition at the Kurt Schon, Ltd. Gallery was devoted to his paintings.
Serrier’s paintings were exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. A retrospective of his work was held in New York in 1986. He died in 1989.
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