Andrée Lavieille (

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11 September 1887 – 14 May 1960

) was a French

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. Daughter and granddaughter of painters (her father, Adrien Lavieille, and her mother, Marie Adrien Lavieille, her grandfather on the father's side, Eugène Lavieille), Andrée Lavieille entered

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in 1908. Subjects of her paintings were

still life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...

s, interiors and especially landscapes. She painted at Saint-Jean-de-Monts in

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beside Auguste Lepère, at

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, Vendôme,

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, then in Paris, where she and her husband, Paul Tuffrau, a man of letters, have successively inhabited, in

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in the little village of Plassac, and above all in

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, which immediately won her heart, particularly at Le Pouldu (1924–1939), and in the region of the

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and the baie des Trépassés (1937–1947). She realized

oil painting Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...

s, but more and more was attracted by

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, more spontaneous for her. Nourished by the classicism of the

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of the still lifes, her painting evoke the impressionists by its luminosity, and in some works the Fauves by the technique of flat tints, and the play of colours. Andrée Lavieille exhibited several times at

Salon des Artistes Français The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

, from 1911 to 1939.

References

This article contains a translation of Andrée Lavieille from :fr:Andrée Lavieille; see its history for attribution.

Bibliography

* Françoise Cambon, Henri Cambon. ''Dans le sillage des impressionnistes, Andrée Lavieille (1887–1960)''. Atlantica, 2007; Lelivredart, 2013. * Henri Cambon, Françoise Cambon, Christelle Bellec, Jacqueline Duroc, Jacques Juloux. ''Une femme peintre au Pouldu, Andrée Lavieille (1887–1960)''. Lelivredart, 2012. * Marie-Paule Piriou, Jean-Marc Michaud, Denise Delouche. ''Femmes artistes en Bretagne (1850–1950)''. Liv'Éditions, 2013.

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Presentation of the artist and of her works
French women painters 1887 births 1960 deaths Landscape artists French still life painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French women artists 19th-century French women artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub