In 1942, he joined the Fine Arts School of Lyon and formed friendships with André Cottavoz, Jean Fusaro, Paul Philibert-Charrin, Jacques Truphémus... and met his future wife, Françoise Juvin. It was in 1948 that this group of friends organized their first exhibition in Lyon. With fervor and enthusiasm, they rejected all known artistic movements. Provocative and lighthearted, these young people - all under thirty - accepted no technique that ended in "ism." This is how they invented "Sanzisme" (without -ism), a new school that did not want to be one! Pierre Coquet continues to paint with the same rigor and maintains this freedom of pictorial expression. Regardless of the subjects treated (seascapes, still lifes, nudes, landscapes), his sensitive and discreet color ranges are astonishingly personal and make up his signature. Everything is summed up in a few words: "I have no favorite subject. I like to paint what surrounds me: objects on a small table, some fruits placed at the bottom of a bowl, or this wilted bouquet forgotten on a table... I try to convey through painting the emotion I felt or the memory I have of such a thing or place." Thus, Pierre Coquet allows us to appreciate a large part of his painting made up of underlying emotions, truths, and modest intimacy. Pierre Coquet is clearly in the lineage of Pierre Bonnard, Giorgio Morandi, or Edouard Vuillard, but his work also shows how much he has enriched himself from the contact with Gustav Bolin, Alexandre Garbell, and Pierre Lesieur.