Pierre Hodé
(1889 – 1942)

Pierre Hodé was born on January 3, 1889 in Rouen. Pierre began to paint at the age of 14, he began exhibiting with the Société Normande de Peinture Moderne at a young age. One year later, at the side of Pierre Dumont, La Fresnay, Marcel Duschamp and Jacques Villon, he began to take an active role in the organization.

In 1915, Hodé settled in Paris, where he was a companion of Picasso at Picasso's atelier at the Bateau-Lavoir. Following World War I, Hodé divided his time between Paris and Normandy. Hodé died in 1942 of a long disease.

Three essential periods can be distinguished over Hodé's career. The first period of formation was inspired by post-impressionism and Fauvism. Hodé next had a cubist period that was influenced by his stay at the Bateau-Lavoir where he was surrounded by such great masters as Picasso and Juan Gris. The last period, from 1921, where the artist having synthesized his various pictorial attempts, will tend to purify and will keep only the essential, without losing himself in the intellectual correctness of the elements of a dislocated reality.