[3] At the beginning of the 1960s, he was a close friend of the French painter Maurice Boitel, who painted many pictures on the Pitxot family's property in Cadaqués, a small port town on the Mediterranean Sea near the French border, that was also painted by Pablo Picasso and André Derain.
[1] In 1966, Pitxot took up permanent residence in Cadaqués, where his family had owned a summer house since the end of the 19th century.
[1] He began to experiment with surrealism: in particular, he became focused on anthropomorphic figures composed of the stones that lined the seashores near his home.
In the year 2000, he was appointed corresponding academician for Cadaqués of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint George.
In the 2004, he received the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts from the King of Spain as a recognition for his work.