Contact:  PPIETROPOLI31@GMAIL.COM

“My work is about drawing and painting, I mean there is no border between them, they are most of the time together coexisting in the final canvas. I start of course the work with drawing, but it doesn’t mean it will not reappear at the final step, on the top of the paint layers.”

Patrick Pietropoli in his studio, March 2015.

Patrick Pietropoli is a contemporary painter artist who represents cityscapes and street scenes along with figural compositions and delicate nudes. He paints the carefully articulated architecture of New York, Paris, Rome and Venice as well as the intimate portrayal of the feminine figure always finding a perfect balance between freedom and form.

Patrick Pietropoli was born in Paris in 1953. After Sciences Po Paris and Master’s degree in Ancient History, he taught history for six years before fully devoting himself to sculpture and painting.
This passion started in early childhood and developed through various experiments with fine arts techniques into a life-long commitment. The artists’ canvases favor line over color while representing objects from the history of Art, architecture, cityscapes with or without figures, female figures. The ancient Greek myths are like a permanent “lietmotiv” in his work.
His first solo exhibition in 1981 was about the Florentine Annonciations, the second one was about “the rapt of the Sabines”, as it is represented in the painting of Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre.
Patrick Pietropoli spent most of his life in Paris and relocated to New York in January 2008.

Solo Exhibitions/International Art Fairs

2023     Galerie Claudine Legrand, “Carnaval Venitien”, Paris 6

2022     Hugo Galerie, “Chenonceau”, Madison Ave, NYC, NY

              Pryor Fine Art, New work, Atlanta, GA

2021     Galerie Claudine Legrand, “Caprices Architecturaux”, Paris 6

              Hugo Galerie, “War & Peace”, Soho, NYC, NY 

2020     Hugo Galerie, “Coup de Foudre”, Soho, NYC, NY

              Markowicz Fine Art, Art Miami

2019     Hugo Galerie,  “Coincidences“, Soho, NYC, NY

2018     Galerie Felli, “Croisees Entrecroisees”, Paris 3 
              Galerie Claudine Legrand, “NYC-Venise Caprices Architecturaux”, Paris 6 
              Hugo Galerie, “Fontainebleau”, Soho, NYC 

2017     La Citadella Museo Civico, Crema, Italy “Past, Present, Future”

2016     M Fine Arts Galerie, Boston, MA “Town & Country” exhibition
              Civic Museum of Melun, France “From the Street to the Museum” 
              Galerie LeRoyer, Montreal, Canada, “New York from Above, Below and Within”

2015     Galerie Felli, “Just Next to Reality”, Paris 3 
              Galerie Claudine Legrand, “New York Street Views and Lointains”, Paris 6 
              The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Art Wynwood Art Fair, Miami, FL “New York City Views“
              The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Art Miami New York Fair, NYC
              The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Art Hampton, Southampton Art Fair

2014     Axelle Fine Arts Soho Gallery, “New York Street Views, grid of 9” NY
              Axelle Fine Arts Soho Gallery, “New hanging, July-Aug”, NY
              The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Art Hampton, Southampton Art Fair, “Polyptychs“
              The Cynthia Corbett Gallery,  “New York Fifth Ave, variations, grid of 9″, London
              Galerie Felli, “Interieurs/Exterieurs”, Paris 3 

2013     Galerie Claudine Legrand, “New York and New Yorkers”, Paris 6 
              Musee de l’imprimerie, Ponthierry, France “Florence, Rome, New York, Street views et
              grands lointains” 

2012     The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Palm Beach Art Fair, Florida
              Axelle Fine Arts Boston Gallery, “Un voyage en Italie”, MA 
              Galerie Gantois, “Lointains et drapes”,Cannes, France
              Galerie St Dizier, Montreal, Canada Art Toronto Art Fair

2011     Galerie Claudine Legrand, “New York grands lointains”, Paris 6 
              The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, “Landscapes, Vedute, peaks & intimate scenes”, London
              Axelle Fine Arts Soho Gallery, “Chrysler Tower”, NY 

2010     The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Art Chicago Art Fair, Chicago
              Axelle Fine Arts Chelsea Gallery, “Paris-New York”, NY 
              Galerie Felli, “Grandes vues de New York”, Paris 3 

2009     Axelle Fine Arts Boston Gallery, “Nudes, Portraits and Town Landscapes”, Boston
              Galerie Claudine Legrand, “New York-Venice, 2 villes sur la mer”, Paris 6 

2008     Relocated from Paris to New York
              Axelle Fine Arts Chelsea Gallery, “Portraits, Urban Landscapes, Compositions”, NY
              Axelle Fine Arts San Francisco Gallery, “Ingres in the City”, CA 
              Galerie Felli, “Grandes vues et scenes intimes”, Paris 3 

2007     Axelle Fine Arts Soho Gallery, “Le rouge et le Noir”, NY 
              Axelle Fine Arts Boston Gallery, “La Haute Bourgeoisie”, MA 
              Galerie Claudine Legrand, “New York, New York”, Paris 6 

2006     Galerie Claudine Legrand, “Venice”, Paris 6 
              The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London Art Fair, London
              Crema Museum, “New paintings”, Italy 

2005     Axelle Fine Arts Soho Gallery, “Room with a view”, NY 
              Axelle Fine Arts San Francisco Gallery, “Paintings”, CA 

2004     Galerie Francis Barlier, “Pedestrians in the city”, Paris 8 
              Galerie Visconti, “Works on paper and terra cotta”, Paris 6 

2003     Axelle Fine Arts Soho Gallery, “Portraits and nudes”, NY
              Galerie de l’Europe, “Portraits anciens et scenes intimes”, Paris 6 

2002     Galerie de l’Europe, “Grands Lointains”, Paris 6 
              Galerie Veronique Smagghe, ART PARIS, Carrousel du Louvre

2001     Galerie Claudine Legrand, “Une visite au Musee”, Paris 7 
              Galerie Gantois, “Town views and terra cottas”, Cannes, France 
              Galerie Veronique Smagghe, ART PARIS, Carrousel du Louvre
              Axelle Fine Arts Soho Gallery, NY

2000     Galerie Ileana Bouloulis, “Venice and visitors”, Paris 7 
              Galerie de l’Europe, “Obelisques en terre cuite et facades”, Paris 6 
              Musee la Marine, Place de la Concorde: two paintings acquired for permanent
              collection

1999     Galerie CGB, “groupes en terre cuite et en bronze”, clays and bronzes, Honfleur, France
              Galerie Claudine Legrand, “Piazzas, Campos and backgrounds”, Paris 7 
              Galerie Boulan, SAGA, Paris, Grand Palais
              Galerie de l’Europe, “Grands tableaux fresques”, Paris 6 

1998     Galerie Septentrion, “Architectural drawings”, Lille France 
              Galerie Boulan, SAGA, Paris, Grand Palais
              Galerie Etienne de Causans, “Views from Andaloucia”, Paris 6 
              Galerie CGB, LINEART, Gand, Belgium
              Galerie Bouboulis, “Visitors in museums”, clays and paintings on panel, Paris

1997     Galerie Catherine Guerard, “Italian Vedute”, Paris 4 
              Galerie Claudine Legrand, “Spain Vedute”, Paris 7 

1996     Galerie Guenegaud, “Un voyage a Venise”, Paris 6 

1995     Galerie Anne Robin, “objets utiles”, Paris 3 
              Galerie Felli, Paris 6 
              Salon d’Art Contemporain de Strasbourg with Galerie Anne Robin

1983–94 Galerie Michel Ozenne, Paris 1: “About the 15th Century’s images of the
              Annunciation in Florence” 
              Galerie 31, Lille, France: “Rewritings from the Sabines’  Abduction by Francois Poussin”
              Personal exhibitions each year in Lille and Paris. Execution of commissions:
              frescoes and monumental sculptures

Art Fairs

2022  The Palm Beach Art Show, West Palm Beach, FL; M Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2020   Art Miami, Miami FL; Markowicz Fine Art, Miami, FL

2015    Art Hamptons Art Fair, Bridgehampton, NY, Cynthia Corbett Gallery London UK Art Southampton Art Fair, Bridgehampton, NY, Cynthia Corbett Gallery London UK Art Miami New York Art Fair, NYC Cynthia Corbett Gallery London UK Art Wynwood Art Fair, Miami, FL, Cynthia Corbett Gallery London UK

2014   Art Southampton Art Fair, Southampton NY, Cynthia Corbett Gallery London UK

2012   Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, FL, Cynthia Corbett Gallery London UK Art Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, Canada, Galerie St Dizier, Montreal, Canada

2010   Art Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL, Cynthia Corbett Gallery London UK

2006   London Art Fair, London UK, Cynthia Corbett Gallery London UK

2001-2002 ART PARIS, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, Galerie Veronique Smagghe, Paris, France

1998-1999 SAGA, Grand Palais, Paris, Galerie Boulan, Paris, France LINEART, Gand, Belgium, Galerie CGB, Honfleur, France

1995 ST.ART, Strasbourg, France, Galerie Anne Robin, Paris 3, France

Selected Collections

New Salem Museum, New Salem, MA

Musee de la Marine, Place de la Concorde, Paris: two paintings acquired for permanent collection Mutualité Française, France

Hotel de la Vicomte, Musee de Melun,

France Odyssey Reinsurance Co

Warwick New York Hotel, NYC: Brooklyn view is currently set in the lobby

Fernando Bottero, private collection

Chris Keesee, private collection

Publications

Summer Group Show, Wall Street International, Art section (2014) Attitudes Contemporaines, Miroir de L’Art, #48, Paris, France (2013) Urban Vistas: Creating a Portrait of a Place, by Naomi Ekperigin, American Artist Magazine (9/2011) Pietropoli: Landscape “Vedute” and Intimated Scenes, Pamela Bates, Art of England Magazine (8/2011) Patrick Pietropoli a New York, Beaux Arts Magazine, France (3/2010) Apres New York, Pietropoli expose place Saint-Jean, Le Parisiene, Seine-et-Marne, France (#20559, 2010) Deux expositions a l’Espace Saint-Jean, La Republique de Seine-et-Marne, France (10/2010) “I classici a modo mio” Il parigino Pietropoli da sabato 3 a Crema, La Provincia, Italy, press (6/2006) Le “jeu du muse” de Patrick Pietropoli, Nice-Matin, France, press (2001) Pietropoli, La Gazette #16, France, press (1999) L’imaginaire historique de Pietropoli, Journal de Lille, France, press (1989)