Serge Poliakoff is a painter the major figures of the École de Paris at the beginning of the year 1900 in Moscow. This artisit is the thirteenth of fourteen children. His father is a supplier of horses for the Russian army and owns a racehorse st ...

Son of a boatman, Camille Bombois went through various professions, such as farm boy, circus wrestler or bobinier, before devoting himself fully to painting.

He moved to Paris in 1907 and, on his return from the war of 1914 – 1918, decide ...

André Bauchant spent his whole life in his native land of Touraine. He left school at 14 to work the land on the family farm. He later became a breeder, tree merchant and nurseryman, which gave him the nickname of «gardener painter».

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Aristide Maillol was one of the most famous sculptors of his day. His work, based on ample forms developed from the female nude but simplified to the extreme of a pure outline, is silent and represents a true artistic revolution that would lead to ...

Born in Paris into a family of Italian shoemakers, Emile Gilioli was a leading figure in post-war abstract sculpture. He spent his childhood in Italy where he learned the art of blacksmithing before joining his father in Nice to train as a sculpto ...

Judit Reigl is a painter who was in turn surreal, abstract or figurative.

After arriving in France in 1950 after eight clandestine attempts to cross the Iron Curtain, Judit Reigl found Simon Hantaï, a fellow student at the Beaux Arts in Bu ...

Born in 1095 in Angoulême, Robert Couturier studied lithography in Paris and quickly caught the attention of Aristide Maillol in 1928. Maillol was struck by the “mal-foutu” (poorly-made) aspect of Couturier’s sculpture: ...

Séraphine Louis, known as ‘de Senlis’, came from a modest family. Orphaned at the age of seven, she worked as a domestic from 1882 to 1902 at the Convent of Charity of Providence in Clermont-sur-Oise. She retained a strong religious influence ...