Charles-Victor Guilloux (1866–1946) was a French symbolist artist.

Biography

Guilloux was born in Paris in 1866 and died in Lormes, Nièvre, in 1946. An employee of the

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in Paris, Guilloux was a self-taught artist who critics like Albert Aurier, Félix Fénéon, and Rémy de Gourmont liken to the time of the

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

movement. From 1891, his works were successfully received at the exhibitions of the

Société des artistes indépendants The Société des Artistes Indépendants (''Society of Independent Artists'') or Salon des Indépendants was formed in Paris on 29 July 1884. The association began with the organization of massive exhibitions in Paris, choosing the slogan "''sans ...

, and then at the "Impressionists and Symbolists" exhibitions at the gallery of

Le Barc de Boutteville The art gallery of Le Barc de Boutteville, at 47 Rue le Peletier, Rue Le Peletier, 9th arrondissement, was one of the few places in Paris in the 1890s where young artists were welcome to present their work to the public, in the years after the deat ...

. Very soon, the titles of his paintings appear more elliptical, sometimes tinged with musical connotations (''Scherzo Moon'', 1894, location unknown), while the origin of his motifs becomes less and less identifiable. This structuring of space and the distribution of forms and colors on which André Mellerio (1862–1943) commented in his idealist movement in painting (1896), are found in many works painted by Guilloux: ''Moonrise over a Channel'' (Mills, Anne de Beaujeu Museum) or ''Landscape at Dusk'' (Beauvais, Musée de l'Oise département). He exhibited at the Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1905, and at the Salon des Indépendants between 1911 and 1914. In 2007, the

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...

bought his painting ''Crépuscule'' (''Twilight'') Charles Guilloux - 03.jpg, Landscape Charles Guilloux, 1892 - Crépuscule.jpg, ''Twilight'', 1892, Paris,

. Charles Guilloux, 1898c - Notre Dame au crépuscule.jpg, ''Notre Dame au crépuscule'', ca 1898 Charles Guilloux, 1895c - L'allée d'eau.jpg, ''L'allée d'eau'', ca 1895

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guilloux, Charles French Symbolist painters 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists 1866 births 1946 deaths 19th-century French male artists