Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac

See also: Dunoyer

André Dunoyer de Segonzac , born the July 7th 1884 with Boussy-Saint-Antoine (the Essonne) and dead the September 17th 1974 with Paris is a Illustrateur French.

In its youth, he attends the Lycée Henri-Iv where he meets Gus Bofa which will remain one of its close relations.

In 1900, he was free pupil of the École of the Art schools of Paris. In 1903, it enters the private workshop of Luc-Olivier Merson. In 1907, he is the pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens and attends the Academy the Pallet with Montparnasse , he becomes acquainted with Luc-Albert Moreau and Boussignault with which he divides a workshop. Its first drawings are published in 1908 in “ the Great Review ” & “ the Witness ”. The same year, it starts to expose to the Salon of autumn, and to the Salon of Independent the. About indifferent to the contemporary esthetic revolutions, he undertook, with Boussignault and Moreau, of ressusciter the realism of Courbet by carrying out dead natural , the naked ones, landscapes, in a thick and built paste. As from this period, renting a house belonging to Signac, he discovers the landscapes of Saint-Tropez, to which there will remain faithful and where he lived until the end of his life. However, it remained there only at the beautiful season, for the remainder, on the contrary it carried out a true life of nomad, with the research of the reason especially through the Île-de-France, the Vallée of Large Morin, Feucherolles, the Chennevières-on-Marne, Guyancourt etc In 1910, it knew the dressmaker Paul Poiret and met max Jacob, Raoul Dufy and Vlaminck. Of 1910 with 1914, it travels in Italy, Spain, North Africa, it is interested in the sport and the Danse (drawings of the Russian Ballet of Isadora Duncan, 1911, the Boxers 1910).

Of 1914 with 1918, mobilized in the infantry, it made the war hard, before being affected with the camouflage. It carries out many drawings of war, invaluable for their artistic and documentary value. As of 1919, it appears again in very many exposures, of which principal Parisian living rooms. It appears in this beginning according to war like the principal one representing Traditional Réalisme. 1920, exposure particular to London. 1921, it meets Valéry, Leon-Paul Fargue and Jean Cocteau. 1928, it went on a journey in America where it met a sharp success. 1930, it binds friendship with Derain. 1933, Price of the foundation Carnegie of Pittsburgh. 1934, Price of the Biennale de Venise. 1938, it exposes to Chicago. 1939, it exposes to London with the gallery Wildenstein. 1947, it was elected member of the Royal Academy of London. 1948, it was elected associated member of the royal Académie of Belgium. 1949-50, exposure to the Gallery Carpenter with Paris, followed of another to Basle. 1951, exposure to the Museum of Art and History of Geneva. 1959, exposure to the Royal academy of London. 1969, exposure to the Gallery Vallotton of Lausanne. 1972, exposure to the Gallery Durand-Ruel with Paris…

Initiated with engraving by Emile Laboureur it will realize nearly 1600 coppers of 1919 to 1970.

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