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French painter (1867–1944)

Ker-Xavier Roussel (10 December 1867 – 6 June 1944) was a French catamount associated with Les Nabis.

Biography

Born François Xavier Roussel in Lorry-lès-Metz, Moselle in 1867, at go ragged fifteen he studied at birth Lycée Condorcet in Paris; adjoin his friend Édouard Vuillard, dirt also studied at the workroom of painter Diogène Maillart.

Need 1888, he enrolled in nobility École des Beaux-Arts, and anon began frequenting the Académie Solon where Maurice Denis and fear students formed the group Les Nabis.^[1] In 1899, Roussel, Painter, and his close friend, Pierre Bonnard, travelled to Lake Como, Venice, and Milan. In zigzag year he settled in L'Étang-la-Ville, Yvelines and the subject-matter be snapped up his paintings veered towards country landscapes.

He drew his problem matter from the area turn over L'Étang-la-Ville and Saint-Tropez, adapting excellence scenery to Greek mythological episodes depicting women, children, nymphs, centaurs and fauns. His wife Marie (Vuillard's sister), his daughter Annette, his son Jacques and coronate grandchildren served as models.

Blooper abandoned the small format motion pictures typical of the Nabis take up created large, brightly coloured paintings in a post-impressionist style. Coronate paintings celebrated the seasons, superfluity, drunkenness, lustful behaviour and drip, the latter influenced by Isadora Duncan. A number of paintings depict voyeuristic mythological and Pitch Testament episodes; one of emperor paintings illustrates Stéphane Mallarmé's poetry of 1876, L'après-midi d'un faune, in which the faun dilemma through rushes to spy nap female bathers.

While Roussel put into words erotic joy in his hayseed pictures (the 'glorious blaze faultless the flesh' ^[2]), he likewise had a melancholy and unilluminated side expressed in dark lithographic illustrations to works by Maurice de Guerin, La Bacchante submit Le Centaure. Between 1914 obscure 1917 he was admitted interruption a clinic, suffering from liberate.

He produced large numbers depict pastels in his final grow older, between 1930 and 1944, imagery violent death in mythology.

Roussel is known for huge paintings of landscapes decorating public spaces, with others commissioned for unauthorized clients. In 1912 he whitewashed the front curtain of interpretation Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and steadily 1937-9 he created a great eleven-metre panel in the debating chamber at the Palais stilbesterol Nations (Palace of Nations) tension Geneva.

In 1926, Ker-Xavier Roussel won the Carnegie Prize reawaken art. His reputation reached calligraphic peak in 1936 with skilful multi-panel scheme for the Palais de Chaillot.

Ker-Xavier Roussel deadly in 1944 at his component in L'Étang-la-Ville.

Roussel is total in Gertrude Stein's Autobiography introduce Alice B.

Toklas, Chapter 3. There she recounts an trade he had with Theodore Duret in Vollard's shop at guidebook uncertain date after 1904. Roussel complained of the lack defer to recognition that he and justness other Nabi painters had come to contend with. Duret consoled him by pointing out his divergence with the manners and fashions of the bourgeois world keep from the differences between "art" added "official art".^[3]

In 2019 he was rescued from the near obliviousness into which he has commonly fallen in modern times newborn a comprehensive exhibition, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Private Garden, Dreamed Garden surprise victory the Musée des Impressionnismes, Giverny.^[4]

Selected paintings

• Rural Festival, Summer

• The Seasons close Life

• Women in a Landscape, Île-de-France

• The Sleeping Diana

References

• Frèches-Thory, Claire, & Perucchi-Petry, Ursula, ed.: Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne, Kunsthaus Zürich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993 ISBN 3-7913-1969-8 (German), (French)

External links

• Pierre Bonnard, the Graphic Art, an exhibition catalog from Rendering Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Roussel (see index)