Lucien Monod
Lucien Hector Monod (* 1867 in Paris , † 1957 ) was a French painter, draftsman and graphic artist of the Belle Époque and Symbolism . He is the father of Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod and the cousin of the impressionist Wilfrid de Glehn . His favorite subjects were landscapes and portraits of beautiful women, which he executed in oil, pencil or lithography . He became famous for his portraits of women and symbolist paintings, inspired by Paul César Helleu .
life and work
Lucien Monod was born in Paris as a descendant of Swiss Calvinists . After training from 1886 to 1889 at the Académie Julian with the symbolist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , with whom he remained friends after graduation, he devoted himself to painting and quickly became a Parisian artist. Since 1891 he exhibited regularly in the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and in the Salon de Paris . In 1899 he was commissioned to design a lithograph for the important Art Nouveau magazine L'Estampe Moderne . For this he designed La voix des sources , which was adorned on the back with a poem by Henri de Régnier .
Monod left the French capital in 1919 to move to Cannes . From there he published the lexicon Le prix des estampes anciennes et modern in a Paris publishing house in 1920 : Prix-atteints dans les ventes. Suites et états. Biographies et Bibliographies in eight volumes. Later - also in Cannes - he edited the first Félix Vallotton monograph, of which he was a fellow student.
Works in collections
Monod's works are in numerous private and public collections around the world. The most important institutions include:
- Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon
- Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in Brussels
- British Museum in London
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
- Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Pedro Martínez in Buenos Aires
- National Gallery of Australia in Canberra
- National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
literature
- Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, Tome 6, p. 182, Gründ 1966
Web links
- La voix des sources
- Lucien Monod in Muzeum Narodowego w Poznaniu
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hedy's legacy to Vallotton ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monod, Lucien |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monod, Lucien Hector (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter, draftsman and graphic artist of the Belle Époque and Symbolism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1957 |