Art-Post-Impressionism

Henri Matisse

Cherbourg – The Artists – Matisse, Henri

December 21, 2022 / ° Artists, Cherbourg, Normandy, West

Henri Emile Benoit Matisse (1869 – 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.

Here are his works for Cherbourg, Normandy.

Paul Signac

Cherbourg – The Artists – Signac, Paul

March 25, 2022 / ° Artists, Cherbourg, Normandy, West

Paul Victor Jules Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style. He started training as an architect but quickly decided he wanted to be an artist.

Here are his works for Cherbourg and surrounding town of Barfleur.

Paul Cesar Helleu

Deauville – The Artists – Helleu, Paul Cesar

April 12, 2021 / ° Artists, Deauville, Normandy, West

Paul Cesar Helleu (1859 – 1927) was a French oil painter, pastel artist, drypoint etcher, and designer, best known for his numerous portraits of beautiful society women of the Belle Epoque. He also conceived the ceiling mural of night sky constellations for Grand Central Terminal in New York City. He was also the father of Jean Helleu and the grandfather of Jacques Helleu, both artistic directors for Parfums Chanel.

Helleu was commissioned in 1884 to paint a portrait of a young woman named Alice Guérin (1870–1933). They fell in love, and married on 28 July 1886. Throughout their lives together, she was his favourite model. Charming, refined and graceful, she helped introduce them to the aristocratic circles of Paris, where they became popular fixtures.

On his second trip to the United States in 1912, Helleu was awarded the commission to design was the ceiling decoration in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. He decided on a mural of a blue-green night sky covered by the starry signs of the zodiac that cross the Milky Way. Although the astrological design was widely admired, the ceiling was covered in the 1930s. It was completely restored in 1998.

While planning for a new exhibition with Jean-Louis Forain, he died in 1927 at age 67 of peritonitis following surgery in Paris. Among many of his friends was Coco Chanel, who chose beige as her signature colour upon on his advice—the colour of the sand on the beach of Biarritz in early morning. Both his son Jean Helleu and his grandson Jacques Helleu became artistic directors for Parfums Chanel.

Here are some of his many paintings he made in Deauville, Normandy.

Henri Lebasque

Deauville – The Artists – Lebasque, Henri

February 11, 2021 / ° Artists, Deauville, Normandy, West

Henri Lebasque was a French post-impressionist painter who painted throughout France. He worked on the decorations at the theatre of the Champs-Elysées and of the Transatlantique sealiner. He was friends with other artists like Raoul Dufy, Louis Valtat, and Henri Manguin.

Here are the two paintings of his we found dealing with Deauville.

Albert Lebourg

Deauville – The Artists – Lebourg, Albert

December 11, 2022 / ° Artists, Deauville, Normandy, West

Albert Lebourg (1849 – 1928), 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’Ecole de Rouen). Member of the Societe des Artistes Francais, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime.

Albert Lebourg spent time in Rouen, Normandy, Algeria and The Netherlands. Here is one painting of his he made close to Deauville; Villers-sur-Mer

Paul Gauguin

Dieppe – The Artists – Gauguin, Paul

November 1, 2021 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia.

Here are his works for the city of Dieppe, Normandy.

Albert Charles Lebourg

Dieppe – The Artists – Lebourg, Albert

November 23, 2021 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Albert Lebourg (1849 – 1928), 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’Ecole de Rouen). Member of the Societe des Artistes Francais, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime.

Albert Lebourg spent time in Rouen, Normandy, Algeria and The Netherlands.

Here are some of his many works he made in Dieppe, Normandy.

Gustave Madelain

Dieppe – The Artists – Madelain, Gustave

December 1, 2021 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Gustave Madelain (1867 – 1944) was French painter with his own interpretation of French post Impressionism. Madelain showed a number of canvases at Le Havre and at Rouen; though it was naturally in Paris that he had his greatest success.

We found only one of his paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy.

Georges Henri Manzana-Pissarro

Dieppe – The Artists – Manzana-Pissarro, Georges Henri

December 22, 2021 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro (1871–1961) was a French artist who worked in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles. He was also a designer of textiles, decorative objects, furniture and glassware.

Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro was born in 1871 in France, at Louveciennes, the third child of Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro. Initially, he painted at his father’s side, where he learned not only to handle brush and pencil but also to observe and to love nature. Like his brother Lucien Pissarro he spent his formative years surrounded by distinguished artists of the Impressionist movement, such as Monet, Cézanne, Renoir and Gauguin, all of whom frequented the Pissarro home.

Here are the paintings of his we found which he made in Dieppe, Normandy.

Paul Maze

Dieppe – The Artists – Maze, Paul

December 13, 2021 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Paul Lucien Maze (1887 – 1979) was an Anglo-French painter. He is often known as “The last of the Post Impressionists” and was one of the great artists of his generation. His mediums included oils, watercolours and pastels and his paintings include French maritime scenes, busy New York City scenes and the English countryside.

Here are his works for Dieppe, Normandy.

Camille Pissarro

Dieppe – The Artists – Pissarro, Camille

March 23, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

He painted quite a few paintings in Normandy

Here are some of his many works he made in Dieppe, Normandy.

Walter Richard Sickert

Dieppe – The Artists – Sickert, Walter Richard – Part 1

January 17, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Walter Richard Sickert RA RBA (1860 – 1942) was a British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the mid- and late 20th century.

In the late 1880s he spent much of his time in France, especially in Dieppe, which he first visited in mid-1885, and where his mistress, and possibly his illegitimate son, lived.

Here is Part 1 of 3 of his MANY paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy (Part 3 deals with the Dieppe suburbs).

Walter Richard Sickert

Dieppe – The Artists – Sickert, Walter Richard – Part 2

January 17, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Walter Richard Sickert RA RBA (1860 – 1942) was a British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the mid- and late 20th century.

In the late 1880s he spent much of his time in France, especially in Dieppe, which he first visited in mid-1885, and where his mistress, and possibly his illegitimate son, lived.

Here is Part 2 of 3 of his MANY paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy (Part 3 deals with the Dieppe suburbs).

Walter Richard Sickert

Dieppe – The Artists – Sickert, Walter Richard – Part 3

February 11, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Walter Richard Sickert RA RBA (1860 – 1942) was a British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the mid- and late 20th century.

In the late 1880s he spent much of his time in France, especially in Dieppe, which he first visited in mid-1885, and where his mistress, and possibly his illegitimate son, lived.

Here is Part 3 of 3 of his paintings he made in the Dieppe suburbs, Normandy (Part 1&2 deals with Dieppe).

Matthew Smith

Dieppe – The Artists – Smith, Matthew Arnold Bracy

February 11, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (1879 – 1959) was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape.

Smith studied under Henri Matisse in Paris and acquired an interest in Fauvism.

During World War I, he was wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele.

Here are his paintings for Dieppe and suburb Varengeville.

Georges William Thornley

Dieppe – The Artists – Thornley, Georges William

January 21, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Georges William Thornley (1857 – 1935) was a French painter and printmaker. He was the son of a Welsh immigrant Morgan Thornley.

He travelled a lot in Normandy and Brittany. He was also know for making lithographs for his fellow artist friends like Claude Monet, Pissarro etc.

Here is the 1 painting of his we found of Dieppe, Normandy.

Henri Lebasque

Etretat – The Artists – Lebasque, Henri

May 10, 2023 / ° Artists, Etretat, Normandy, West

Henri Lebasque was a French post-impressionist painter who painted throughout France. He worked on the decorations at the theatre of the Champs-Elysées and of the Transatlantique sealiner. He was friends with other artists like Raoul Dufy, Louis Valtat, and Henri Manguin.

Here are the two paintings of his we found dealing with Trouville-sur-Mer, Normandy.

Albert Lebourg

Etretat – The Artists – Lebourg, Albert

May 10, 2023 / ° Artists, Etretat, Normandy, West

Albert Lebourg (1849 – 1928), 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’Ecole de Rouen). Member of the Societe des Artistes Francais, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime.

Albert Lebourg spent time in Rouen, Normandy, Algeria and The Netherlands. Here are 2 paintings of his he made in Etretat.

Henri Matisse

Etretat – The Artists – Matisse, Henri

May 10, 2023 / ° Artists, Etretat, Normandy, West

Henri Emile Benoit Matisse (1869 – 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.

Here are 22 of his works for Etretat, Normandy.

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