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Born in 1870, Georges d’Espagnat moved to Paris with his family when he was a young man. A strongly independent student, he rejected the traditional places of artistic education available in the capital, claiming to have spent only four hours at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Instead he attended classes at the free academy and drew at the Louvre.
D’Espagnat exhibited his work at the Salon des Refusées in 1891, and later at the Salon...
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Born in 1870, Georges d’Espagnat moved to Paris with his family when he was a young man. A strongly independent student, he rejected the traditional places of artistic education available in the capital, claiming to have spent only four hours at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Instead he attended classes at the free academy and drew at the Louvre.
D’Espagnat exhibited his work at the Salon des Refusées in 1891, and later at the Salon of the Société Nationale and the Salon des Independents, both venues known for their openness to modern trends. He was a friend of Auguste Renoir as well as Paul Signac, Henri Edmond Cross, Louis Valtat and later Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard and Eduard Vuillard, and his early works bear the influence of Impressionism.
In 1903, d’Espagnat, along with the architect Frantz Jourdain and critic Ivanhoe Rambosson, founded the Salon d’Automne with the purpose of creating an alternative exhibition venue for young artists and for retrospectives of the modern artists who had been rejected at the end of the earlier century. The following year, he exhibited at the Salon d’Automne, becoming its Vice-President in 1935.
Between 1905 and 1910 he made several trips with Valtat to visit Renoir on the Côte d’Azur, and also travelled to Spain, Italy, Portugal, Britain and Germany. In 1906, he illustrated Remy de Gourmont’s book Sixtine, published in Paris. In the early 1910s, by which time his work had become more simplified, fluid and intimate, he painted a number of portraits including of several musician friends like Albert Roussel.
After working in a camouflage unit during World War I, in 1920 d’Espagnat bought a country house in the Quercy region of France, and painted numerous landscapes and interiors there over the next decade. During the 1930s he worked in various media and genres, including illustrations for books and design projects. Ironically, from 1936 to 1940 d’Espagnat served as a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the very same institution he found stifling as a student.
Though briefly disrupted by World War II, he continued to paint until his death in 1950.
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Born
July 14, 1870
Melun, Seine-et-Marne
Died
April 17, 1950
Paris
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