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Peter Pitout
France
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Artist highlights
- Group shows participant
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 11.8x11.8in
About this artwork
This series of works is inspired by the literature of Robert Burton and others.
A study into the nature and origins of melancholy.
“Know ye not that there is here in this world a secret confraternity,
which one might call the Company of Melancholiacs?
That people there are who by natural constitution
have been given a different nature and disposition than the others;
that have a larger heart and a swifter blood, that wish and demand more, …
have stronger desires and a yearning which is wilder and more ardent than that of the common herd.
They are fleet as children over whose birth good fairies have presided; their eyes are opened wider; their senses are more subtile in all their perceptions. The gladness and joy of life, they drink with the roots of their heart, the while the others merely grasp them with coarse hands.”
― Jens Peter Jacobsen
A study into the nature and origins of melancholy.
“Know ye not that there is here in this world a secret confraternity,
which one might call the Company of Melancholiacs?
That people there are who by natural constitution
have been given a different nature and disposition than the others;
that have a larger heart and a swifter blood, that wish and demand more, …
have stronger desires and a yearning which is wilder and more ardent than that of the common herd.
They are fleet as children over whose birth good fairies have presided; their eyes are opened wider; their senses are more subtile in all their perceptions. The gladness and joy of life, they drink with the roots of their heart, the while the others merely grasp them with coarse hands.”
― Jens Peter Jacobsen
Peter Pitout
France
Credentials
- Group shows participant
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
« My work captures abstraction, surrealism and the unpredictable. I trace the paths taken by my subjects throughout the creative process. Each work is unique. Each work, a new destination. »
Peter Pitout is an artist based in France, whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Drawing from his childhood in Durban, South Africa and a background in industrial art and design, he creates paintings that balance structured forms with surrealist gestures.
His multidisciplinary practice spans oil painting, embroidery, and conceptual research, often exploring themes of light, vibration, and transformation. Pitout has participated in several art residencies in France and abroad, using these immersive experiences to deepen his artistic inquiry and expand his visual language.
For him, the creative process is a return to inner roots—a space for reflection, reconnection, and the evolution of artistic consciousness.
Drawing from his childhood in Durban, South Africa and a background in industrial art and design, he creates paintings that balance structured forms with surrealist gestures.
His multidisciplinary practice spans oil painting, embroidery, and conceptual research, often exploring themes of light, vibration, and transformation. Pitout has participated in several art residencies in France and abroad, using these immersive experiences to deepen his artistic inquiry and expand his visual language.
For him, the creative process is a return to inner roots—a space for reflection, reconnection, and the evolution of artistic consciousness.
