Georges Barriere - Artist Info

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Georges Barrere
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    Georges Barrière (28 March 1881 in Chablis – 1944 in Ð? Son) was a French painter. He went to Paris at the age of 19 to follow the courses of Léon Bonnat and Jules Adler at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. His paintings were shown at the Salon d'Automne in 1903, at the Société des Artistes Indépendants in 1906, and the Salon des Artistes Français in 1909.

    During World War I he made many sketches of the trench life of the French soldiers, with titles such as "Sous les Marmites au poste de secours de la cote 204."

    After the war his paintings were shown at the Société nationale des Beaux-Arts.[2]
    The last ten years of his life were spent in Indochina. In 1934 at the age of 52 he won the Prix de...

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