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Gustave Loiseau Biography
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Visited Gauguin in Pont Aven
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Studied at the atelier of F.J. Quignon, Paris
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Geneva (Petit Palais, Musée d’Art Moderne)
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Rennes (Musée des Beaux Arts)
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Stuttgard (Collection Kunsthaus Buhler)
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Gustave Loiseau, who was to become a renowned Post-Impressionist artist, was born in Paris in 1865, the son of a merchant.
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He was apprenticed to a decorator, a job he particularly disliked, but his interest in art (especially landscape painting) grew when his parents moved back in 1884 to their hometown of Pontoise.
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This town near Paris had an important place in French painting at the time, its environs having recently been depicted extensively by Pissarro and Cezanne, the former having a home there.
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In 1887 Loiseau received a legacy from his grandmother which enabled him to give up his job as a decorator and devote his life to painting.
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His first teachers after a move to Paris included such illustrious names as Jean-Louis Forain, but he did not appreciate the more academic tendencies such artists promoted.
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It was not until a move to Pont-Aven in 1890 and his meeting with Henry Moret and Maxime Maufra that he found his style.
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He learnt a great deal first hand from Paul Gauguin, but his work also shows a debt to Sisley and Pissarro.
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After a period of pointillist experimentation he re-found his pure landscape ideals painting in a Post-Impressionist manner directly from nature.
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He returned to Paris in 1891 where he began to exhibit his work, showing first at the Fifth Exhibition of Impressionist and Symbolist Painters.
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For the rest of his life he travelled extensively, painting in the Dordogne, Dieppe and on the banks of the Seine.
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He had a particular interest in the depiction of water within a landscape, of which our picture is a very fine example. It is also from his best period.
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Loiseau also painted an important series of works of Paris, which form a fascinating development to the first Impressionist views of Monet and Pissarro.
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In these works he took a high viewpoint and concentrated on the contrast between the small figures below and the large buildings, often shown with obvious advertising hoardings.
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Although he died in Paris in 1935, his last years were spent in Pontoise where his introduction to painting had begun.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1890
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Salon des Independants, Paris
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| Literature |
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2003
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Da Caillebotte a Picasso, I capolavori della collezione Oscar Ghez dal Museo del Petit Palais di Ginevra, a cura di L. Caramel, N. Sainte Fare Garnot, G. Gentry, Milano, Mazzotta
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2001
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Gustave Loiseau et la Bretagne, 1865 – 1935, Musée de Pont-Aven
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2001
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Da Renoir a Picasso, un secolo d’arte al Petit Palais di Ginevra, a cura di Paola Gribaudo, Milano, Electa
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1997
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Pointillisme, sur les traces de Seurat, A.A.V.V., Pointillisme, sur les traces de Seurat, Losanna, Fondations de l’Hermitage
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1996
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G. Schurr, P. Cabanne, Dictionnaire des Petits Maitres de la peinture, 1820-1920, Paris, Les editions de l’amateur
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1992
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Douarnenez «au bonheur des peintres», Henri Belbeoch
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1991
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H. Belbeoch, F. Clifford, Belle-Ile en art, Henri Belbeoch
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1990
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Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Ed. Réunion des Musées Nationaux
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1979
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J.M. Kyriazi, Gustave Loiseau, l’historiographe de la Seine, Papyros Arts Graphiques, Biblioteque des Arts, Paris-Lausanne
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| Links to further information |
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