271 - [GALLIEN (Pierre-Antoine)]. Archives and part of his studio collection, including: - A series of 11 unsigned ORIGINAL GOUACHES, approx. 25 x 19 cm, female nudes

[GALLIEN (Pierre-Antoine)]. Archives and part of his studio collection, including: - A series of 11 unsigned ORIGINAL GOUACHES, approx. 25 x 19 cm, female nudes - NOGUES (Marius), *Bread and Roses*. *Le Musée du Soir*, special issue, 1961. 8vo, paperback, with illustrated printed cover. Frontispiece portrait and engravings by P.A. Gallien. Print run of 1,000 copies; No. 10 with a beautiful “E.A.S.” from the author to the artist. - Correspondence with journalist Julien Blanc, including press clippings - Notes, drawings, and engravings for an article in *Le Papetier* detailing (- 6 original (amateur?) gouaches signed “Allain.”) Pierre-Antoine Gallien (1896–1963), a French painter, printmaker, and art critic, was one of the most distinctive figures of the Parisian avant-garde of the 1920s. Trained in Grenoble and later at the École nationale des arts décoratifs in Paris, he distinguished himself through his woodcuts featuring powerful, often abstract compositions based on contrasts between black and white, which earned him the nickname “the painter of the black line.” Close to Dadaist circles and many artists in Montparnasse—notably Picabia, Gleizes, and Kupka, with whom he was friends—he participated in the exploration of geometric abstraction. Also an illustrator and art theorist, he joined the Abstraction-Création group in 1931. His work was rediscovered during a retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1979.