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Armand Guillaumin
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Jean-Baptiste- Armand Guillaumin was born in Paris in 1841 to a working-class family. His foray into art began at the age of 15, when he enrolled in evening art classes while he worked in his uncle’s store, and he continued to paint in his spare time even when he had to take up employment in the French Railways.
Guillaumin entered the Académie Suisse in 1861, where he met artists Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro with whom he...
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Jean-Baptiste- Armand Guillaumin was born in Paris in 1841 to a working-class family. His foray into art began at the age of 15, when he enrolled in evening art classes while he worked in his uncle’s store, and he continued to paint in his spare time even when he had to take up employment in the French Railways.
Guillaumin entered the Académie Suisse in 1861, where he met artists Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro with whom he remained friends for the rest of his life. In the early phase of his career, the artist painted several landscapes, particularly rural scenes that were untouched by industrialisation and wrapped in an air of romanticism. Guillaumin was exposed to these scenes on his travels outside Paris, especially on the trips he and Pissarro made to Pontoise, a farming village, where they spent a great deal of time together. Along with these landscapes, he also painted many portraits of his wife, and a few still lifes.
Guillaumin’s works were displayed at the Salon des Refusés in 1863, and in 1874, they were exhibited in the first significant group exhibition of the Impressionists. The artist continued to exhibit in most of the Impressionist group shows which followed until 1886, the year he met Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo, who sold some of his works. Guillaumin was the only Impressionist who lived long enough to see the acceptance and success of the group.
In 1891, Guillaumin won 100,000 French francs in the national lottery, which gave him the financial stability and the freedom he needed to leave his government job and paint full time. Guillaumin’s paintings are marked by a passion for colour, so much so that, towards the end of his life, this brought him close to the Fauves.
The artist died in Orly, just South of Paris, in 1927, at the age of 86.
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Born
February 16, 1841
Died
June 26, 1927
Orly, Val-de-Marne
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