Here’s a condensed 150-word bio of Pierre Tal-Coat with reference to Galerie Maeght:

Pierre Tal-Coat (1905–1985), born Pierre Louis Jacob in Brittany, was a pioneering French artist and key figure in the post-war School of Paris. A founder of Tachisme, European abstract expressionism, he adopted the Breton name Tal-Coat ("wood face") to avoid confusion with Max Jacob. Initially a decorator in Quimper's porcelain factory, he drew inspiration from the Brittany countryside before transitioning to painting in the 1930s.

His early works were bold figurative canvases, often politically charged, including his anti-war series The Massacres. Post-WWII, Tal-Coat moved to Aix-en-Provence and later Paris, participating in the Salon de Mai and exhibiting internationally. Influenced by André Masson and poet André du Bouchet, his work evolved into non-figurative impressions marked by signs and lines connecting nature and spirituality.

In 1963, Tal-Coat collaborated with Joan Miró and Raoul Ubac on the Maeght Foundation. His minimalist etchings and lithographs remain celebrated for their contemplative abstraction.