Georges D'ESPAGNAT (1870-1950)
NAME: Vue d'un port -
ENGLISH NAME: View of a port
MEDIUM: Watercolor on monogrammed paper lower left
IMAGE: 20.5 x 31 cm (8 x 12 inches)
Carries a label on the back of Gallery J. Le Chapelin - 71, Faub. Saint-Honoré - Paris 8th - Exhibition 1972
IMAGE is ACTUAL WORK
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Georges d'Espagnat was born August 14, 1870 in Melun, France. He was a French Post-Impressionist painter, muralist, illustrator, and theater designer. He is an artist who had a tendency of using both impressionist and fauvist techniques.
D’Espagnat choose not to attend the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts school that so many have studied at, but instead to go to the Louvre and study the Masters independently. In 1893 he is exhibiting at Salon des Artistes Indépendants. In 1895 he had his first solo show in Paris and 7 years later meets M. Denis, P. Bonnard (one of my favorites), and E. Vuillard. Having Renoir as his friend, he took part in an exhibition at the Marcel Bernheim Gallery in 1907 along with Bonnard, Cézanne, Matisse, Pissarro, Rouault, Seurat and Toulouse-Lautrec.
In 1934 his life came full circle as he was appointed to be a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Some of his exhibits:
1893: Salon des Artistes Indépendants
Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
1898 to 1911: Galerie Durand-Ruel (in Paris and New York)
1899 to 1901: Salon de la Libre Esthétique de Bruxelles
1903 to 1949: Salon d’Automne (founder)
1904: Salon of the Sécession
1918 and 1926: Galerie Bernheim in Paris
He has appeared in Museums around the world:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Art Institute, Chicago
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Musée d’Orsay
Musée d’Art Moderne
Musée Eugène Delacroix
Bibliotheque Nationale and Palais de l’Institut, Paris
Musée de l’Annonciade, Saint-Tropez
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
Musée Lambinet, Versailles
Mueso Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo