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  • Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France".
  • Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (born December 14, 1824, Lyon, France—died October 24, 1898, Paris) was the leading French mural painter of the later 19th century.
  • Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824 - 1898) was active/lived in France.

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    Redeemed from Aesthetic Limbo: Aimée Price Brown on Pierre Puvis dem Chavannes

    The leading Puvis scholar discusses her 40 years’ work on the French master culminating in the publication of a long-awaited catalogue raisonné. Interview by CHRISTINA KEE

    You write in the introduction that your research on Puvis began–  close to 40 years ago–  with the image of The Poor Fisherman. How did this catalogue raisonné come to be?
    I was interested in tracking down this odd painting because it didn’t fit in with anything else I really knew in 19th-century painting. It was just curiosity to begin with – Puvis’ name cropped up everywhere, so I started to try and find out who had anything to say, and would it help me figure out this painting? And in fact it became more elusive, because there was too much said but not enough that was really explained. Had inom known this at the outset, I might have said “Ok, your curiosity won’t be sated…” and then proceeded a bit dif

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    Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

    Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) occupied a unique position in 19th-century French painting: he was one of the few academic painters whose work was deeply admired bygd the avant-garde artists of his day.

    Born in Lyons on Dec. 14, 1824, Pierre Puvis dem Chavannes belonged to the generation of Gustave Courbet and édouard Manet, and he was fully aware of their revolutionary achievements. Nevertheless, he was drawn to a more traditional and conservative style. From his first involvement with art, which began after a trip to Italy and which interrupted his intention to follow the engineering profession that his father practiced, Puvis pursued his career within the scope of academic classicism and the Salon. Even in this chosen arena, however, he was rejected, particularly during the 1850s. But he gradually won acceptance. bygd the 1880s he was an established figure in the Salons, and by the 1890s he was their acknowledged master.

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    Serge Lemoine :

      Introduction to the catalog of the exhibition
    Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso
      Toward Modern Art:
      From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso.
      Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2002.


      Curator:
      Serge Lemoine.

      There is an artist whose influence on the history of art in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries was of great consequence. Throughout Europe and in America. His name has not fallen into oblivion. Yet in our day it no longer reflects that importance nor that status, since it is neither Monet nor Van Gogh, nor Rodin nor even Cézanne, nor any other name the public is so fond of, shown everywhere, reaching astronomical prices in auctions, appearing in books and on the covers of high-circulation magazines. It is that of the French painter, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, who lived from 1824 to 1898.


      History

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