Alain Pontecorvo is an established French painter and draftsman whose works have been held in notable international institutions, including New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA.) Having left a former career in advertising, he composes paintings that propose an illustrative and intricate style of modern realism. Influenced by traditional Dutch painting techniques, he focuses on compositional arrangement and close engagement with pigment to achieve an overall aesthetic that appears at once precise and playful.