René Fontayne
René Fontayne (born 1891 in Vergèze, died 1952 in Vergèze), was a French Painting, painter and Illustration, illustrator . Biography René Fontayne's artistic career began to take off during the fertile period between the two world wars. Born in Vergèze, in the Gard, on 3 January 1891, he graduated from the École Municipale des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes in 1910, and in 1912 went to Paris on a national scholarship to further his talent as a painter and decorative artist, a talent that would come to be especially active and appreciated in the field of decorative arts. His first-known works date from the start of the 1920s. Fontayne expressed an early fondness for detailed drawing, particularly evident in his still lifes. The artist simply and directly arranges the elements against a uniform background. The same economy of means is also seen in his early landscapes, which suggest a figurative Cubism like that taught by André Lothe in the academy he founded in 1921 in the Rue d’ ...
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Vergèze
Vergèze (; oc, Vergesa) is a Communes of France, commune in the Gard Departments of France, department in southern France. Vergèze-Codognan station has rail connections to Nîmes, Avignon and Montpellier. Located just south-east of the commune is the production facility for Perrier, a carbonated mineral water widely sold both in France and internationally. Population International relations Vergèze is Twin towns and sister cities, twinned with Bârlad, Romania. See also *Communes of the Gard department *Perrier References

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