Pierre Cavellat

Pierre Cavellat' (1901-1995) is a magistrate, painter and Breton ceramist .

Biography

Pierre Cavellat is born on December 4th, 1901 with Pontrieux in Brittany. His/her father, originating in the country of Elliant (29) is notary with Taulé. He passes his adolescence to Morlaix and binds to the college with Jean Seznec. He also meets Francis Gourvil there.

He studies then the right to faculty of Rennes. After its years coeds which give the opportunity to him to publish caricatures in the newspaper of the Association of the Students, it carries out face a career in the magistrature and its passion for the practice of the Visual arts. The latter, will appear in particular, by multiple sketches of the big events or banals of its daily life, as well professional as family. These scenes of life carried out on the bit of paper available to this moment, recall with humor and irony, but also with tenderness, its feelings of the moment. It makes palpable and moving despair by his wife when she listens to the advertisement of the declaration of the war to the radio. On the other hand its vision of the sections of life seen with the audiences of the court is cynical. It thus carries out an astonishing table, in which it represents the judgment of a divorce by a couple, lengthened naked, on a table in front of magistrates. Many other drawings show Brittany, during one time hinge (years 30-40), where cross with Troménie de Locronan the Breton ones in caps and the camera of the tourists.

Its career of magistrate is brilliant. In 1929 it starts as temporary Juge in the spring of Rennes, then becomes successively Juge in Quimper with Saint Nazaire then President of the Court of Châteaulin in 1936. These localizations enable him to attend the faience manufacture Henriot. It becomes friendly with the manufacturer Joseph Henriot and the engineer ceramist Victor Lucas and creates ceramics parts. In 1938 it becomes acquainted with max Jacob. In 1942 he becomes President of the Court of Fougères. He chairs, at the time of the release, the courts of justice of Ille and Vilaine and the Coasts of North. He assumes the chairmanship of the Court of Saint-Brieuc where he binds a friendship with the writer Louis Guilloux. Its professional path brings it in Angers, and Nantes. It meets thus the poster artist and caricaturist Jules Grandjouan. It is named in 1956 First President of the Court of Appeal of Caen. In 1969 when it takes its retirement with Carantec, it can devote its time only to artistic creation, and this until its death on August 17th, 1995.

Exposure

The Breton departmental Museum of Quimper devotes the exposure entitled to him " Small chronicle bretonne" from November 12th, 2006 to March 11th, 2007.

Bond Internet:

Gallery GLOUX : " Scenes of ports and edges of Mer" - Pierre Cavellat - from September 29th to October 26th - 22 avenue Doct. Nicolas 29900 CONCARNEAU;

Sources

Catalog exposure " Small Bretonne" Chronicle; text of Jean-François Cavellat and foreword of Philippe Stum. 2006

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