Simon Albert Bussy - Artist Info

About Simon Albert Bussy

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Albert Simon Aime Bussy
  • Biography

    Albert Simon Aimé Bussy (30 June 1870 – 22 May 1954) was a French painter who married the English Dorothy Bussy. He knew and painted many members of the Bloomsbury circle.

    Bussy was born in Dole, France and came from a family of shoemakers. He went from the drawing school in Dole to Gustave Moreau's studio in the École des beaux-arts de Paris, where he met and became friends with Henri Matisse. He received an honorable mention in 1894 at the Salon des artistes français for his Le Joueur de clarinette and Saint Georges terrassant le dragon. He showed a Portrait of Albert Machado in 1896. In 1897 he had hist first solo exhibition at the Durand-Ruel gallery in Paris.

    In 1901 Bussy visited London, where he c...

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