Pierre Bosco, The Polo Game, 1960, Oil on Canvas

Pierre Bosco Oil on canvas signed lower right "The Polo game" Circa 1960


Pierre Bosco was interested in art from a very young age and his first works demonstrate a natural sensitivity to color and a desire to give volume to images, which would later become his artistic signature. When he discovered the paintings of Cézanne, Pissarro, Gauguin and Rouault, he was convinced that his future was in Paris. There he met the artists Pierre Bonnard, André Derain, Aristide Maillol, Edouard Vuillard and his brother-in-law, the Nabi painter Ker-Xavier Roussel, who became his great spiritual master and with whom he discovered his own artistic personality. In the 1950s, he began to achieve greater success by participating in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, where his paintings received praise. The following year, he exhibited fifty paintings at the Galerie du Hérisson to an enthusiastic audience. The French press associated the paintings of this period with "bewitching magic", and according to the poet Guy Lavaud, "Bosco is a powerful painter and a visionary." For three consecutive years, the painter was selected for the prestigious prize of the Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Paris. 1956, Bosco signed a fifteen-year contract with the famous Galerie de l'Elysée in Paris for exclusive representation. At this stage of his career, Pierre Bosco has reached a maturity appreciated by art connoisseurs as well as by the press who are unanimous in praising his "dazzling visions"; Le Figaro considers him "as one of the greatest painters of his generation" and the New York Herald sees him as "the last Picasso in perspective, and very fashionable" (May 14, 1957). Now, Bosco has earned his place among the biggest names in contemporary painting: Chagall, Braque, Picasso, Matisse; his paintings are included in the permanent collections of museums. In 1964, he exhibited at the Max Bodner gallery in New York; his paintings are presented among those of Marie Laurencin, Picasso, Signac, Pissarro, Renoir and Rouault. In April 1967, Bosco received the silver medal from the city of Paris and in June he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Pierre Bosco occupies a privileged place among American and European collectors, particularly in France and Italy, but also in Scandinavian countries. Many Hollywood celebrities such as Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Jack Palance, as well as former French President Georges Pompidou, were all collectors of Bosco paintings. His works are also found in the collections of the Musée de la Ville de Paris, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Tel Aviv, Caramulo (Portugal), the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (NB, Canada), the Toledo Museum of Art, from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, etc.