In 1942, he joined the School of Fine Arts in Lyon and befriended 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 ardor and enthusiasm, they refuse all known artistic currents. Provocative and laughing, these young people - all aged under thirty - do not accept any technique that ends in ism. This is how they invented “Sanzisme” (without -ism), a new school that did not want to be one! Pierre Coquet always paints with the same high standards and perpetuates this freedom of pictorial expression. Whatever the subjects treated (seascapes, still lifes, nudes, landscapes), his ranges of sensitive and discreet colors are surprisingly personal to him and make his signature. Everything is said in a few words: “I have no favorite subject. I like to paint what surrounds me: objects on a pedestal table, some fruit placed at the bottom of a cup or even this faded bouquet forgotten on a table... I try to convey through a painting the emotion that I I felt or the memory I have of such a thing or such a 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 line with Pierre Bonnard, Giorgio Morandi or Edouard Vuillard, but his work also shows how much he was enriched by contact with Gustav Bolin, Alexandre Garbell and Pierre Lesieur.