{"id":1053,"date":"2011-12-03T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T15:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saddlerivergallery.com\/?page_id=1053"},"modified":"2015-08-01T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T15:57:46","slug":"henri-lebasque-1865-1937","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saddlerivergallery.com\/?page_id=1053","title":{"rendered":"Henri Lebasque"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Henri Lebasque was born in 1865 in Champigne, France. In 1885 he started his education at the Ecol\u00e9 des Beaux-Arts d\u2019Angers<\/em>, and moved to Paris in\u00a01886. There, Lebasque\u00a0\u00a0 entered the studio of artist L\u00e9on Bonnat, and assisted Humbertwith the decorative murals at the Panth\u00e9on.<\/p>\n

In 1893, Henri Lebasque had his first exhibition at the Salon des Independents, where he met Paul Signac and Maximilien Luce. Lebasque’s vision was colored by his contact with younger painters, especially Edouard Vuillard\u00a0and Pierre Bonnard, founders of the The Nabis’ Group, who were the Intimists that first favored the calm and quietude of domestic subject matter. From his first acquaintance with George s Seurat\u00a0and Paul Signac, Lebasque learned the significance of a color theory which stressed the use of complementary colors in shading. \u00a0Within the following year he met Camille Pissarro and August Renoir, he began to visit Camille Pissarro\u2019s house on the outskirts of Paris. Pissarro was one of the first to recognize Lebasque\u2019s talents in 1903, praising it at the Salon des Independents.<\/p>\n

That year, the Salon d\u2019Automne\u00a0was founded, and Lebasque became one of its founding members along with his friend Henri Matisse.\u00a0Two years later, a group of artists exhibited there which included Georges Rouault, Andr\u00e9 Derain, Edouard Vuillard, and Matisse. Throughout this period of time, Lebasque also became friends with artists such as Gustave Rouault, Raoul Dufy, Louis Valtat, and Henri Manguin, it was he, who\u00a0suggested to\u00a0\u00a0Lebasque that he move his family to the South of France (Le Midi).<\/p>\n

Once in that region of strong sunlight and bright colors, he became enamored of the Fauve artists, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy and Louis Valtat and his bright canvases reflect their influence. In Le Cannet, he befriended Pierre Bonnard, and the two artists shared the same models. During this period, Lebasque focused on the nude as subject and was successful in capturing the natural nonchalance of his models positioned upon wonderfully patterned fabrics. Painting during the Post-Impressionist period, Henri Lebasque exhibited for thirty years at the Salon d\u2019Automne and Salon des Independents with artist friends Maximilien Luce, Paul Signac and Henri Manguin. He is known as a \u201cpainter of the good life\u201d because his works depict members of his family at home, in gardens, on terraces and by the seashore. These scenes of daily life are imbued with a quiet innocence and painted in a spontaneous yet well-composed manner.<\/p>\n

After a rich and rewarding life, Henri Lebasque died at his home in Le Cannet, Alpes-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maritimes, in 1937. Twenty years after his death, the Mus\u00e9e des Ponchettes in Nice presented the first retrospective of the works of Henri Lebasque
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Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge<\/p>\n

Detroit Institute of Arts<\/p>\n

Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City<\/p>\n

Indianapolis Museum of Art<\/p>\n

Lyman Allyn Museum, New London<\/p>\n

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco<\/p>\n

Bridgestone Museum, Toyko<\/p>\n

Musee de Petit Palais, Geneva<\/p>\n

Musee d\u2019Angers<\/p>\n

Musee des Beaux-Arts, Canne<\/p>\n

Musee des Peintures et Sculptures, Grenoble<\/p>\n

Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon<\/p>\n

Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes<\/p>\n

Musee des Beaux-Arts Jules Cheret, Nice<\/p>\n

Musee d\u2019Orsay, Paris<\/p>\n

Musee de l\u2019Annonciade, St. Tropez<\/p>\n

Musee des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(1865-1937)             Henri Lebasque was born in 1865 in Champigne, France. In 1885 he started his education at the Ecol\u00e9 des Beaux-Arts d\u2019Angers, and moved to Paris in\u00a01886. There, Lebasque\u00a0\u00a0 entered the studio of artist … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1053","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saddlerivergallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saddlerivergallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saddlerivergallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saddlerivergallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saddlerivergallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saddlerivergallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saddlerivergallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}