Jean-Maxime Relange (France, 1938 - 2017)

 

Jean-Maxime Relange was a French painter who was active in the latter half of the 20th century. He was born in 1938 in Paris and studied art at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Relange was known for his abstract paintings, which often incorporated geometric shapes and patterns. He was interested in the relationship between color and form, and his work often explored the interplay of different hues and tones.

Relange exhibited his work widely in France and internationally, and his work can be found in many public and private collections. He was a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d'Automne, and was recognized for his contributions to the art world with a number of awards and honors. Relange died in 2017 at the age of 79.

Andre Brasilier

 

Femme à la fenêtre (1963)

André Brasilier is a French painter and illustrator known for his colorful, impressionistic paintings and prints. He was born in 1929 in Saumur, France and studied art at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. Brasilier has exhibited his work widely in France and internationally, and his work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Musée d'Orsay and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Brasilier's paintings often depict landscapes, still lifes, and figures, and are characterized by their loose, expressive brushwork and bright, vibrant colors. In addition to his painting practice, Brasilier has also worked as an illustrator for books, magazines, and other publications.

a French post-cubist: Claude Venard (1913-1999)

 

Untitled (Still Life with a Vase of Flowers)
Oil on canvas, 74.4 x 74.4 cm.

Sous les Arbres - Under the Trees 

oil on canvas 73 x 92.1 cm

Claude Venard was a highly individual post-Cubist painter known for his still-lifes, landscapes, and eccentric portraits. In the late 1930s, he exhibited with the Forces Nouvelles, a group that rejected the avant-garde in favour of a return to traditional craftsmanship, and included the artists Pierre Tal-Coat and André Marchand. Even early works, such as La Poêle dans L’Atelier (1940) presage Venard’s imminent turn to Cubism: the overall flatness of the painting, its variations in scale, and the artist’s use of basic geometric forms like rectangles, cylinders, and cones are all representational strategies which would be useful later in his career. Venard soon distanced himself from the Force Nouvelles, and began developing his own vibrant, energetic Post-Cubist style, characterized by a rich impasto and an extremely varied color palette. 

His Still Life (1955–56) featuring highly stylized fish against a boldly patterned background illustrates the increasingly abstract turn his work took throughout the 1950s. 

Later in his career, Venard added still more texture and volume to some of his works by using heavy applications of oil, or mixed media such as cardboard and sand.

Cyprien Eugène Boulet (French, 1877-1927)

 

Cyprien Eugène Boulet was a French painter and illustrator who was born in 1877 and died in 1927. He was known for his genre scenes and landscapes, as well as his illustrations for books and magazines. Boulet studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited his work at galleries and museums throughout France, and his paintings can be found in private and public collections around the world. In addition to his work as an artist, Boulet also taught at the École des Beaux-Arts and was involved in the art world as a critic and curator.

a French cubist: Albert Gleizes

 

Cubist Landscape

Albert Gleizes (8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", 1912. Gleizes was a founding member of the Section d'Or group of artists. He was also a member of Der Sturm, and his many theoretical writings were originally most appreciated in Germany, where especially at the Bauhaus his ideas were given thoughtful consideration. 

Gleizes spent four crucial years in New York, and played an important role in making America aware of modern art. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists, founder of the Ernest-Renan Association, and both a founder and participant in the Abbaye de Créteil. Gleizes exhibited regularly at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie de l’Effort Moderne in Paris; he was also a founder, organizer and director of Abstraction-Création. From the mid-1920s to the late 1930s much of his energy went into writing, e.g., La Peinture et ses lois (Paris, 1923), Vers une conscience plastique: La Forme et l’histoire (Paris, 1932) and Homocentrisme (Sablons, 1937).

wiki/Albert_Gleizes

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Robert Delauney (French, 1885-1941)

 

Tour Eiffel (ca. 1925), Oil on canvas (160 x 120 cm)

Portrait of Jean Metzinger (Man with a Tulip) 1906

Self portrait (1905/1906), Oil on canvas (54 x 46 cm)

Femme à l’ombrelle ou La Parisienne  
[Woman with Umbrella or The Parisian Lady], 1913
Oil on canvas, 122.8 x 90.2 cm. 

Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract. His key influence related to bold use of colour and a clear love of experimentation with both depth and tone.

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Emile Bouneau

Emile Bouneau (French, 1902-1970)

Fontainebleau forest in the winter

Jean-Gabriel Domergue

At the Carlton

Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889– 16 November 1962) was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.
Domergue was born in Bordeaux and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1911, he was a winner of the Prix de Rome.From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits, and claimed to be "the inventor of the pin-up". He also designed clothes for the couturier Paul Poiret. From 1955 until 1962 he was the curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André, organising exhibitions of the works of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya and others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Gabriel_Domergue

Roger Mühl

Roger Mühl (French, 1929-2008)

Roger Mühl was a 20th-century French painter best known for his light-drenched landscape renderings of the South of France. Mühl’s paintings often feature built-up impasto surfaces and utilize complimentary colors and neutral tones, creating both atmosphere and physicality in his subtle compositions. Born on December 20, 1929 in Strausbourg, France, he went on to attend the National School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg. He spent most of his life living and working in Provence while exhibiting in London, Paris, Geneva, Tokyo, and New York. Mühl died on April 4, 2008 in Mougins, France.

credits: artnet

Théodore Rousseau (1*)

Sunset in the Auvergne (detail), 1844

Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812 – December 22, 1867) was a French painter of the Barbizon school.
Rousseau's pictures are always grave in character, with an air of exquisite melancholy. They are well finished when they profess to be completed pictures, but Rousseau spent so much time developing his subjects that his absolutely completed works are comparatively few. He left many canvases with parts of the picture realized in detail and with the remainder somewhat vague; and also a good number of sketches and water-color drawings. His pen work in monochrome on paper is rare. There are a number of good pictures by him in the Louvre, and the Wallace collection contains one of his most important Barbizon pictures. There is also an example in the Ionides collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Rousseau

Gustave Loiseau

Gustave Loiseau (French, 1865-1935)

The Haystack, 1899

Le Champ de Ble, 1904

L’Arc de Triomphe et l’Avenue de Friedland, 1930-31.
Oil on canvas, 71 x 58 cm

Gustave Loiseau (3 October 1865, Paris – 10 October 1935, Paris) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets.

Loiseau's paintings, revealing his passion for the seasons from the beginning of spring to the harvests later in the autumn, often depict the same orchard or garden scene as time goes by. Series of this kind, which also include cliffs, harbours or churches, are reminiscent of Claude Monet. Although Loiseau did not complete many portraits, he often painted people at work: dockers together with their boats, villagers leaving a Sunday service in Brittany or arriving at the market in Pont-Aven, or even carriages in Paris driving across the Place de la Bastille and the Étoile. He is also remembered for his paintings of Paris streets such as the Rue de Clignancourt or the Avenue de Fiedland. From the 1920s, he painted many still-lifes. His overall approach, rather than being associated with any particular theory, is simply an attempt to represent scenes as sincerely as possible.

Lyrical abstraction: Olivier Debré

Olivier Debré (French 1920-1999)

Light Poplars (Peuplier clairs), 1959

Olivier Debré is considered to be one of the most important painters in French abstract art. His work has been referred to as “lyrical abstraction” or “fervent abstraction” because his paintings,which have been exhibited throughout Europe, capture the emotion created by a landscape. 

Debré died at the age of 79 in 1999.

“Je me défends d’être un paysagiste, je traduis l’émotion qui est en moi devant le paysage, mais pas le paysage.”

Jean Metzinger, La danse

Jean Metzinger (French, 1883-1956)

La danse (Bacchante) (1906) 

oil on canvas, 73 x 54 cm


Les Ibis (1907)

Nu (Nu debout), 1911

oil on carton

Circus Equestrienne, 1924

Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (June 24, 1883 – November 3, 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, born in Nantes, France, who, along with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Albert Gleizes, developed the art style known as Cubism.

His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, appear to have been influenced by the Neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross. Between 1904 and 1907 Metzinger worked in the Divisionist and Fauvist styles with a strong Cézannian component, leading to some of the first proto-Cubist works. 
From 1908 Metzinger experimented with the faceting of form, a style that would soon become known as Cubism. His early involvement in Cubism saw him both as an influential artist and principal theorist of the movement. The idea of moving around an object in order to see it from different view-points is treated in Metzinger's "Note sur la Peinture", published in 1910. 
Prior to Cubism painters worked from the limiting factor of a single view-point. Metzinger, for the first time, in "Note sur la peinture", enunciated the interest in representing objects as remembered from successive and subjective experiences within the context of both space and time. 
Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes wrote the first major treatise on Cubism in 1912, entitled Du "Cubisme". Metzinger was a founding member of the Section d'Or group of artists.

see also https://www.wikiart.org

Albert Lebourg (French, 1849-1928)

Paris, the Seine at Pont des Arts and the Institute

La Seine à Marly 

oil on canvas 39 x 61 cm

I usually do not comment pictures, but the light in this one is wonderful

The Parc Monceau (1900)

The Bridge, Joinville

Rouen And Saint-Sever (1900)

Albert Lebourg (1 February 1849, Montfort-sur-Risle – 6 January 1928, Rouen), birth name Albert-Marie Lebourg, also called Albert-Charles Lebourg and Charles Albert Lebourg, was a French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (l'École de Rouen). Member of the Société des Artistes Français, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime. The artist was represented by Galerie Mancini in Paris in 1896, in 1899 and 1910 by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1903 and 1906 at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg, and 1918 and 1923 at Galerie Georges Petit.

source: en.wikipedia

Gustave Jean Jacquet

A Portrait of a Noble Lady

Gustave Jean Jacquet est un peintre français né le 25 mai 1846, mort en 1909. Peintre de portraits et de scènes historiques. Élève de William Bouguereau, il débuta au Salon de 1865.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Jacquet

Marcel Dyf, a French post-impressionist

Marcel Dreyfus, dit Marcel Dyf  (1899 – 1985)

The Field Of Poppies, Undated

Wheat Field

The Vase with Wild Flowers, 1950

Young Woman In Pink, 1956

Wheat field and village in Provence

Bois Darcy

The Corn Field

Marcel Dreyfus, dit Marcel Dyf (Paris 11^e, 7 octobre 1899 – Bois d’Arcy, 15 septembre 1985), est un peintre post-impressionniste
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Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)

The Desperate Man ‘self-portrait’ 1845

The Black Rocks at Trouville 1865-1866

The Waterspout, 1866, Oil on canvas, 43.2 x 65.7 cm

The Calm Sea, 1869. Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (59.7 x 73 cm)

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix) with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.

“ I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty."

Eugène Louis Boudin, the king of the skies

Trouville, les jetées, marée haute

The Beach, Cloudy Sky (1885)

Deauville, the Dunes (1891)

Eugène Louis Boudin (French: [budɛ̃]; 12 July 1824 – 8 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the "king of the skies".

more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Louis_Boudin

Maximilien Luce

Maximilien Luce (French, 1858-1941)

La Marne et le Pont de Fer à Lagny, 1888
Oil on canvas, 24.8 x 32.8 cm.

La Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 1901

View of the Theâtre du Châtelet

The Port of Rotterdam, Evening, 1908

The Grove,  1909

Le Treport, the Jetty, 1930

Maximilien Luce (13 March 1858 – 6 February 1941) was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism. 

Starting as an engraver, he then concentrated on painting, first as an Impressionist, then as a Pointillist, and finally returning to Impressionism.