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1883 Paris, France - 1943 Paris, France. Known for: Parisien high-life, genre scene painting, dance figures, camouflage art.
Jean Louis Boussingault was a French painter born in Paris in 1883, and he died there in 1943. He was the grandson of a famous scientist and a friend of Dunoyer de Segonzac, with whom he did military... Read full biography
Jean Louis Boussingault was a French painter born in Paris in 1883, and he died there in 1943. He was the grandson of a famous scientist and a friend of Dunoyer de Segonzac, with whom he did military service in 1903, and whose studio he shared, and also of Luc-Albert Moreau at the Académie Julian.... Read full biography
Jean Louis Boussingault was a French painter born in Paris in 1883, and he died there in 1943. He was the grandson of a famous scientist and a friend of Dunoyer de Segonzac, with whom he did military service in 1903, and whose studio he shared, and also of Luc-Albert Moreau at the Académie Julian. While still a young man, Boussingault, who first exhibited in 1909 at the Salon des Indépendants (Nude Woman in a Tall Hat), was commissioned by the couturier Paul Poiret to do a vast decoration... Read full biography
Jean Louis Boussingault was a French painter born in Paris in 1883, and he died there in 1943. He was the grandson of a famous scientist and a friend of Dunoyer de Segonzac, with whom he did military service in 1903, and whose studio he shared, and also of Luc-Albert Moreau at the Académie Julian. While still a young man, Boussingault, who first exhibited in 1909 at the Salon des Indépendants (Nude Woman in a Tall Hat), was commissioned by the couturier Paul Poiret to do a vast decoration crowded with Amazons, mannequins, swings and fabulous staircases. He was hailed as a new Constantin Guys. With a kind of suppressed humour and fundamental bluntness, this frequenter of race-courses and big bars, who had the bony features and colouring of... Read full biography
Jean Louis Boussingault was a French painter born in Paris in 1883, and he died there in 1943. He was the grandson of a famous scientist and a friend of Dunoyer de Segonzac, with whom he did military service in 1903, and whose studio he shared, and also of Luc-Albert Moreau at the Académie Julian. While still a young man, Boussingault, who first exhibited in 1909 at the Salon des Indépendants (Nude Woman in a Tall Hat), was commissioned by the couturier Paul Poiret to do a vast decoration crowded with Amazons, mannequins, swings and fabulous staircases. He was hailed as a new Constantin Guys. With a kind of suppressed humour and fundamental bluntness, this frequenter of race-courses and big bars, who had the bony features and colouring of an El Greco, took hold of the fragile present. Few pictures are as characteristic of the rhythms and the pleasures peculiar to t... Read full biography
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Jean Louis Boussingault was a French painter born in Paris in 1883, and he died there in 1943. He was the grandson of a famous scientist and a friend of Dunoyer de Segonzac, with whom he did military service in 1903, and whose studio he shared, and also of Luc-Albert Moreau at the Académie Julian.
While still a young man, Boussingault, who first exhibited in 1909 at the Salon des Indépendants (Nude Woman in a Tall Hat), was commissioned by the couturier Paul Poiret to do a vast decoration crowded with Amazons, mannequins, swings and fabulous staircases. He was hailed as a new Constantin Guys. With a kind of suppressed humour and fundamental bluntness, this frequenter of race-courses and big bars, who had the bony features and...But wait, there's more...
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