Louis Latapie

Louis Latapie (1891 - 1972) is a painter French whose work develops, through natures dead and naked female, with the limits of a strongly coloured Cubisme. In the Années 1950 the simplification of the forms brings it closer to the abstraction.

Biography

Louis Latapie is born on July 11th, 1891 with Toulouse. His/her father, journalist and director of the newspaper “the Telegram”, settling in Paris around 1900 to work with the newspaper “Freedom”, it continues its studies with the College Janson de Sailly. Drawing since childhood it is registered in 1910 at the School of the Art schools. It there follows the courses of Jean-Paul Laurens but attends also the Académie Julian and in 1911 the Académie Ranson where it discovers with Paul Sérusier research of the cubism.

After having carried out his military service with Albi, Louis Latapie is mobilized in 1914. His/her older brother dies at the beginning of the war. Itself, with the length of ten campaigns, is wounded by three wounds, receiving two quotations. Regaining in 1920 its workshop, he becomes professor with the Ranson Academy, wife Estelle Isch-Wall, meets max Jacob, Roger Bissière, Jean Metzinger, Jacques Villon, and present starting from 1922 its first exposures. In 1923 Georges Directs, Bissière, Ozenfant and Latapie forms the association of the “Beavers of Montsouris” to build original houses of cubic structure. After the brutal disappearance of his wife the same year, Louis Latapie settles in 1925 with Toulon. He there meets Juan Gris and founds an academy of painting. Of return to Paris in 1927, Latapie marries Renee Meurisse, takes again her courses with the Ranson Academy and decorates with Montparnasse one with the pillars with the famous brewery “the Cupola”. In 1930 it settles again in Toulon, continuing to give some courses to Paris. Vis-a-vis its financial problems it practically ceases painting between 1932 and 1934 to start again the agency of illustrated report of his father-in-law deceased, the first in France, before reselling it in 1936.

Whereas he works with the realization of a mural decoration of 40 m2 for the new stage Pierre de Coubertin with Boulogne-Billancourt, Latapie is mobilized in 1939 and returns to Paris in 1940. Selling two floors of its Parisian house it buys in 1946 the “Old Mill” with Seine-Port which it starts to restore by installing its workshops there. In 1951 several Tapisserie S are carried out according to its paperboards by manufactures of Beauvais and the Gobelins. After two personal exposures to Paris in 1954 and 1956 its painting is directed towards the abstraction.

Louis Latapie carries out in the Années 1960 several mosaic S for schools with Melun and Laval. Under the title of Patafioles it starts in 1963 to write its memories, which will be published in 2005. He resigns himself in 1967 to separate from his “Mill” of Seine-Port, regains Paris then settles in 1968 with Avignon. He yields in 1969 it quasi totality of his workshop to his merchant. Latapie realizes in 1970 an exposure in three places in Italy. Whereas it prepares in 1971 for 25th the Festival of Avignon an exposure in two rooms of the Palais of the Popes, his wife dies in a few days of varnishing.

After the disappearance of Louis Latapie the July 12th 1972 in Avignon, many exposures and retrospectives of its works are presented in France, in particular in Paris, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Toulouse, Lille, Bordeaux, like abroad, in Eaubonne and Geneva in Switzerland, in Bilbao in Spain.

Work

“Today, the work of Louis Latapie is completely integrated in the history of the painting of the XXè century, and takes its right place in its chapters emblematic federated by the cubism. (...) Cash among the young painters of its generation, gifted and receptive in the great innovative movements, Louis Latapie was born with painting by adopting the cubism in full blooming. An adhesion which it will be able to nourish of its personal vision of the beings and things etqui makes him conquer a plastic language of which the unit and the style identify it immediately. ”

Lydia Harambourg, Louis Latapie , Ides Editions and Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2003 (pp. 11-13).

“In the generous painting of Louis Latapie, the naked female one plays a crucial role. Years 1920 until its death, it is the subject of many tables, like a leitmotiv with the multiple variations. (...) The naked one is often alone (...). With the topic of the Caryatids, it isolates the female figure in a vertical format, in a traditional hieratism (...). Lastly, with the triads, it takes again the traditional evocation of the three Graces (...). This research project (...) becomes a priority during the time inhabitant of Avignon, a violence of the colors and a simplification of the forms ever reached up to that point (...). ”

Lydwine Saulnier-Pernuit, in Louis Latapie , Museums of Direction, 2006 (p. 15).

Quotation

“Is this my fault? So in a deep breathing, I inspire cubism and expires fauvism. ”

Louis Latapie, in Louis Latapie , Museums of Direction, 2006 (p. 43)

Selective bibliography

Louis Latapie, Patafioles. Autobiographical writings , foreword of Laure Latapie, foreword of Jean-Louis Latapie, foreword of Jean-Pierre Flory and postface of Michel Blay, CNRS Editions, Paris, 2005.

Latapie , text of Marcel Pouvreau, Gallery Left bank, Paris, 1954.
Louis Latapie , texts of Waldemar George and Rene Massat, Gallery J.C. of Chaudun, Paris, 1957.
Louis Latapie , texts of Silvagui, Rene Massat and Unlucky-Mayeur, Dammarie-the-Lily, 1967.
Rene Massat, Louis Latapie , Prism, Paris, 1968.
Louis Latapie , text of Andre Urban, Urban Gallery, Paris, 1970.
Louis Latapie , texts of Walter Lewino, Chantal Lanvin and Denis Milhau, Villeneuve-sur-Lot (Museum Gaston Painter and Theater Georges Leygues) and Toulouse (Museum of Augustins), 1988.
Latapie , text of Raphaël-Georges Mischkind, Prieural Castle, Monsempron-Libos, 1991.
Lydia Harambourg, Louis Latapie , biography by Isabelle Bissière, Ides Editions and Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2003.
Louis Latapie , texts of Lydia Harambourg, Lydwine Saulnier-Pernuit, Bernard Ethuin-Coffinet, Museums of Direction, 2006 (ISBN 2913909191).

External bond

Louis Latapie with the virtual Museum of Seine-Port (selection of images, testimonys of Laure and Jean-Louis Latapie)

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