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1891 - 1981. Known for: Painting.
It was a meeting with Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier in 1908 that influenced the young Jean Souverbie to take up an artistic career. Led by these two members of the Nabis group, Souverbie enrolled... Read full biography
It was a meeting with Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier in 1908 that influenced the young Jean Souverbie to take up an artistic career. Led by these two members of the Nabis group, Souverbie enrolled at the Académie Ranson in 1916, where he befriended Bonnard, Vuillard and Vallotton. Cubist... Read full biography
It was a meeting with Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier in 1908 that influenced the young Jean Souverbie to take up an artistic career. Led by these two members of the Nabis group, Souverbie enrolled at the Académie Ranson in 1916, where he befriended Bonnard, Vuillard and Vallotton. Cubist tendencies were apparent in his work of the 1920s as a result of his contact with the work of Braque. However, his sensuousness allowed him to combine the cubist vocabulary with a more traditional naturalism... Read full biography
It was a meeting with Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier in 1908 that influenced the young Jean Souverbie to take up an artistic career. Led by these two members of the Nabis group, Souverbie enrolled at the Académie Ranson in 1916, where he befriended Bonnard, Vuillard and Vallotton. Cubist tendencies were apparent in his work of the 1920s as a result of his contact with the work of Braque. However, his sensuousness allowed him to combine the cubist vocabulary with a more traditional naturalism in order to create his voluptuous, classical nudes. His monumental figures, his taste for allegorical subject matter and simplicity of composition reveal his interest in the great French classical painter, Poussin. Souverbie‘s classicism does not only... Read full biography
It was a meeting with Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier in 1908 that influenced the young Jean Souverbie to take up an artistic career. Led by these two members of the Nabis group, Souverbie enrolled at the Académie Ranson in 1916, where he befriended Bonnard, Vuillard and Vallotton. Cubist tendencies were apparent in his work of the 1920s as a result of his contact with the work of Braque. However, his sensuousness allowed him to combine the cubist vocabulary with a more traditional naturalism in order to create his voluptuous, classical nudes. His monumental figures, his taste for allegorical subject matter and simplicity of composition reveal his interest in the great French classical painter, Poussin. Souverbie‘s classicism does not only relate to seventeenth century tradition but equally to the laws of perfect beauty posed by the Greeks, and fea... Read full biography