Pierre Jean Baptiste Louis Dumont

Place: Paris

Born: 1884

Death: 1936

Biography:

Pierre Jean Baptiste Louis Dumont, also known as Pierre Dumont, was a French painter born in Paris on March 29, 1884, and died in the same city on April 8, 1936. He was a painter of the Rouen School and was schooled at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille. Dumont founded the Groupe des XXX in 1907 and, along with Robert Antoine Pinchon, Yvonne Barbier, and Eugène Tirvert, founded the Société Normande de Peinture Moderne in 1909. From 1910 to 1916, he lived at the Le Bateau-Lavoir, becoming friends with Juan Gris, Max Jacob, and Guillaume Apollinaire. He turned towards Cubism during this period and played a crucial role in the organization of the Salon de la Section d'Or at the Galerie La Boétie in Paris in October 1912.