Armand Séguin (painter)

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Les deux Chaumières (around 1893), Indianapolis Museum of Art
Portrait de Mademoiselle Gabrielle Vien (1893), Musée d'Orsay , Paris
Paradise (1895)

Armand Séguin (born April 15, 1869 in Paris , † December 30, 1903 in Châteauneuf-du-Faou , also Armand Seguin) was a French painter and lithographer whose work is attributed to post-impressionism .

life and work

Armand Séguin received his artistic training at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he discovered works by Paul Gauguin in 1889 in a show by the impressionists and synthetists in the Café Volpini. His arrival in Pont-Aven in 1891 is documented , where he met and exhibited several artists from the Pont-Aven school . In 1892 he returned to Pont-Aven and met the painters Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Cuno Amiet and Émile Bernard . A year later Paul Gauguin gave him lessons and later wrote the introduction to the catalog of Seguin's first solo exhibition in 1895.

Seguin worked with Roderic O'Conor in Le Pouldu near Pont-Aven in 1893 . After introducing him to the technique of etching , they created a number of works together.

The penniless alcoholic, after moving several places, spent the last part of his life in Paul Sérusier's house in Châteauneuf-du-Faou, where he died of tuberculosis in 1903 at the age of 34 .

He was a grandson of the chemist Armand-Jean-François Seguin .

literature

  • Une vie de bohème: Lettres du peintre Armand Seguin à Roderic O'Connor . Imprimerie Bargain, Quimper, 1989
  • Henry Masson: Armand Seguin, la vie errante, l'œuvre insolite . Brest, 1995

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armand Seguin , catalogue.bnf.fr, accessed December 8, 2016
  2. ↑ Armand Seguin , letelegramme.fr, accessed December 8, 2016
  3. ↑ Armand Seguin , larousse.fr, accessed on December 8, 2016
  4. ↑ Armand Séguin ( Memento of May 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), ifpda, accessed on December 7, 2016

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Séguin, Armand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , Seine department , France
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1903
Place of death Châteauneuf-du-Faou , Finistère department , France