Pierre-Dominique Lafitte

Pierre-Dominique Lafitte was born in 1957 into a family of painters, sculptors, and musicians, in Ville-d’Avray (Camille Corot’s birthplace), near Versailles.

He began painting at the age of 12, encouraged by his grandmother, and entered the Art School of Versailles in 1971.
He studied with the painter Jaro Hilbert at Ville-d’Avray, and then moved to Aix-en-Provence, where he had his first exhibition in 1976.

He continued studying drawings and engraving at the Art School of Aix-en-Provence, and held a second exhibition of highly symbolic paintings, based around his major work « The Venetian Bridge».

In 1982, Lafitte turned himself into Poetic Realism, developing his own distinctive style through a series of large scale canvasses featuring imaginary figures inspired by reality. He also exhibited in 1985 as part of the Lyrical Art Festival of Aix-en-Provence.

In 1987, inspired by a major exhibition in Paris of the work of Vermeer and his contemporises, Lafitte became convinced of the need to rediscover the lost painting techniques of the 16th and 17th centuries. This marked a turning point in his career.

He has since honed these techniques to an extraordinary level of craft, which is best exemplified by his still life painting, his favourite discipline.

Pierre-Dominique Lafitte’s work appears in numerous private collections, in France and abroad.

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