Charles Lacoste

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Charles Lacoste (born March 3, 1870 in Floirac (Gironde) , Gironde department , † March 1959 in Paris ) was a French painter .

Life

Lacoste was a self-taught painter . Through his childhood friend, the poet Francis Jammes , Lacoste became interested in art. He became a member of the artist group Les Nabis , which a. a. Édouard Vuillard and Félix Vallotton belonged. Here he also made friends with André Gide . In October 1898 he had his first solo exhibition at the Salon des Cent in Paris.

In 1899 he moved entirely to Paris, where he lived until his death. From 1901 he exhibited regularly in the Salon des Artistes Indépendants . In 1903 he was a founding member of the Salon d'Automne , where his work was regularly exhibited until his death. In 1904 André Gide brought him into contact with the Parisian photographer and gallery owner Eugène Druet . Between 1905 and 1938 Druet organized around 30 exhibitions with works by.

In 1985 a traveling exhibition with works by Lacoste traveled through France via Paris , Beauvais and Bordeaux . In 1992 the Katia Granoff gallery showed a solo exhibition on Charles Lacoste. From January 30 to May 2, 2002, the Wildenstein Gallery in New York showed 40 paintings by Lacoste. This was also the first exhibition of Lacoste works in the USA. Guy Wildenstein published the book "Charles Lacoste, A Forgotten Nabi" (Wildenstein & Company) on Lacoste in 2002. Shortly before the start, Wildenstein had to identify the event, which had actually been announced as a sales exhibition, as a pure exhibition, as it became known that three of the paintings were stolen in Paris in 1983.

literature

  • Charles Lacoste (1870–1959), a Forgotten Nabi, Galerie Wildenstein, Verlag Wildenstein, 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Remembering a Forgotten Nabi, in: Antiques and the Arts Online, January 22, 2002 ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / antiquesandthearts.com
  2. ^ Les mystères des tableaux volés du peintre Charles Lacoste of April 7, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Lacoste, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Floirac (Gironde)
DATE OF DEATH March 1959
Place of death Paris