Henri Baptiste Lebasque (1865 - 1937) France
Watercolor on Paper
Measure 71/2"in H x 11 1/2"in W and 13"in H x 17"in W with frame
Known for: Still life, portrait and genre painting
Name variants: Henri Baptiste Le Basque, Henri Lesbasque
Biography: Hailed as the painter of "joy and light" by the critics and curators of the Louvre during his lifetime, Henri Lebasque's primary concern was the simple expression of sensuous surface. Lebasque began his studies with Leon Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Within a short time however he renounced the strictures of this formal training and joined Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Paul Signac and Hippolyte Petitjean at gallery Le Barc de Boutteville. After this he exhibited at the Salon de la Society National in 1896, and then at the Independants and the Salon D'Automne. Lebasque was a close friend of Henri Matisse, Henri Manguin and Georges Rouault, but unlike them did not share their preference for wild, violent color. He took inspiration instead from the softer impressionist palette of Camille Pissarro with whom he also studied. In his outdoor scenes as well as his intimate interiors, Henri Lebasque employed large free strokes with the brush to construct his compositions but in colors that were at once vaporous, delicate and harmonious. He spent much of his career in the south of France painting along the shores of the Mediterranean or in his home at Le Cannet. He was a neighbor and close friend of Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse, and the three men shared many of the same artistic ideals and aspirations.
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