Pierre Dumont

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Pierre Dumont was a French painter associated with the Rouen School who pivoted toward Cubism after moving to Le Bateau-Lavoir in Paris between 1910 and 1916. During this period he developed close ties to Juan Gris, Max Jacob, and Guillaume Apollinaire, and became instrumental in organizing the Salon de la Section d'Or at Galerie La Boétie in October 1912. He co-founded the Société Normande de Peinture Moderne in 1909 and the Groupe des XXX in 1907, positioning himself as a bridge between regional Normandy painting and the avant-garde movements of early twentieth-century Paris.

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