Artists

Pierre Anfosso

French, 1928-2004

Pierre Anfosso (1 December 1928 at La Crau - 5 November 2004 in Hyères) was a French painter. He was born in 1928 near Toulon, France. After high school and a science degree, he joined the School of Fine Arts of Toulon in 1948, to study architecture, and then became a student of the painters Eugene Baboulène and Henri Pertus and also became interest in Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, and Ivan Puni.

In 1950, with school classmates Gilbert Landlord, Jacques Burois, Ducreux Monique, and Lucien Roy Long, he created the 50 Group exhibiting at the Toulon gallery "La Palette" at the Museum of Fine Arts in Toulon, and at the Biennale of Menton and the exhibition of the Young Mediterranean Painting.

In the years that followed, he participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and received several prizes for paintings. Over the decades, his interest turned to the painting of Nicolas De Staël and Mark Rothko.

From the 1960s, he was also interested in floral painting, especially Iris. In the 1970s, he and his wife, Monique, created an Iris garden, which is now managed by their daughter, Monique.