About Yves Alix

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    Yves Alix
    1890-1969

    Yves Alix was born in Fontainebleau, France in 1890. He studied at the Académie Julian in 1908 with Dunoyer de Segonzac and Luc-Albert Moreau in the atelier of Baschet and Royer, and the Académie Ranson from 1910 to 1912, where Maurice Denis, Bonnard, Serusier, and Vuillard were teaching.

    Alix began exhibiting at the Salon des Indépendants in 1912. In 1913 he met André Lhote and came under the influence of the Cubists. At the outbreak of World War One he volunteered for military service. After the war ended in 1918 he began exhibiting at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Tuileries.

    Alix had many gallery exhibitions in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1930 he showed several painti...

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