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Sigismond Jeanes BIOGRAPHY
1863 Nancy, France - 1952. Known for: Semi-abstract painting of misty landscapes, marine scenes, atmospherics.
The landscape painter Sigismond Jean-Ernest Jeanès was largely self-taught as an artist. The early part of his career seems to have been spent travelling extensively around Europe, and as far afield... Read full biography
The landscape painter Sigismond Jean-Ernest Jeanès was largely self-taught as an artist. The early part of his career seems to have been spent travelling extensively around Europe, and as far afield as China and India. Jeanès worked extensively in Italy and the South Tyrol, painting views of the... Read full biography
The landscape painter Sigismond Jean-Ernest Jeanès was largely self-taught as an artist. The early part of his career seems to have been spent travelling extensively around Europe, and as far afield as China and India. Jeanès worked extensively in Italy and the South Tyrol, painting views of the Dolomites, the Alps and Venice. He exhibited at the Salon d’Automne* from 1906 onwards, and also at the Société des Artistes Indépendants*, showing mountain landscapes in watercolours and tempera, with... Read full biography
The landscape painter Sigismond Jean-Ernest Jeanès was largely self-taught as an artist. The early part of his career seems to have been spent travelling extensively around Europe, and as far afield as China and India. Jeanès worked extensively in Italy and the South Tyrol, painting views of the Dolomites, the Alps and Venice. He exhibited at the Salon d’Automne* from 1906 onwards, and also at the Société des Artistes Indépendants*, showing mountain landscapes in watercolours and tempera, with a particular emphasis on atmospheric light effects. Writing of a view of Venice exhibited by the artist at the Salon d’Automne of 1906, the author Maurice Guillemot noted, Jeanès will perhaps equal Turner with his painting Sunrise in Venice: he uses... Read full biography
The landscape painter Sigismond Jean-Ernest Jeanès was largely self-taught as an artist. The early part of his career seems to have been spent travelling extensively around Europe, and as far afield as China and India. Jeanès worked extensively in Italy and the South Tyrol, painting views of the Dolomites, the Alps and Venice. He exhibited at the Salon d’Automne* from 1906 onwards, and also at the Société des Artistes Indépendants*, showing mountain landscapes in watercolours and tempera, with a particular emphasis on atmospheric light effects. Writing of a view of Venice exhibited by the artist at the Salon d’Automne of 1906, the author Maurice Guillemot noted, Jeanès will perhaps equal Turner with his painting Sunrise in Venice: he uses watercolour in a very particular way, in imprecise blonde shades, with warm tones, like cotton wool, in an apotheosis of Wagnerian colouring... Read full biography
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The landscape painter Sigismond Jean-Ernest Jeanès was largely self-taught as an artist. The early part of his career seems to have been spent travelling extensively around Europe, and as far afield as China and India. Jeanès worked extensively in Italy and the South Tyrol, painting views of the Dolomites, the Alps and Venice.
He exhibited at the Salon d’Automne* from 1906 onwards, and also at the Société des Artistes Indépendants*, showing mountain landscapes in watercolours and tempera, with a particular emphasis on atmospheric light effects. Writing of a view of Venice exhibited by the artist at the Salon d’Automne of 1906, the author Maurice Guillemot noted, Jeanès will perhaps equal Turner with his painting Sunrise in Venice...But wait, there's more...
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