Pierre Loeb

Pierre Loeb (born 24 September 1897 in Paris; died 4 May 1964)[1] was a French art dealer and gallery owner who focused primarily on Surrealism and 20th-century Modernism.

[3] In 1924, Loeb opened his Galerie Pierre at 13 rue Bonaparte in Paris and presented Pascin's works in his first exhibition.

[4] In the gallery's most famous exhibition, La peinture surréaliste (November 14–26, 1925), the first group exhibition of Surrealist painters, Loeb presented works by Hans Arp, Paul Klee, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Giorgio de Chirico, as well as André Masson.

In the same year Loeb met for the first time in person with Pablo Picasso, with whom he later became good friends and whose works he exhibited in 1929.

After that, he focused with great energy on abstract painting, exhibiting works by the artist group CoBrA and the École de Paris, as well as by individual artists such as Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Zao Wou-Ki, Constantin Georges Macris, and Camille Bryen.