This work featured in a solo show in London, Mayfair at The Redfern Gallery.

Pierre Skira was born in Paris in 1938. In 1954, Skira became a typographical apprentice in a Swiss workshop, which gave him a love of books that he later expressed in his paintings and pastels. Two years later, Skira moved to Paris, where he lived within a community of like-minded creatives, and started to paint, influenced by artists such as Franz Kline, Emilio Vedova, and Piet Mondrian. Skira exhibited for the first time in 1962, Paris, and a solo show was staged two years later, at the time of the emergence of New Figuration. In 1967, he won the Prix de la Biennale de Paris. In 1975, Skira switched from working in oil to high-quality pastels, primarily those made by Roché. Examples of this work have been shown in solo exhibitions across Europe, and most recently at the Redfern Gallery in 2016 and 2019. He has collaborated with prominent philosophers and writers, such as Pascal Quignard, Jean-François Lyotard, Patrick Mauriès and Gérard Macé. Skira’s work is held in many important public collections, including the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, and the Palais de l’Élysée.