Georges Barrière (28 March 1881 in

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– 1944 in

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) was a French painter. He went to Paris at the age of 19 to follow the courses of

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and

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at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. His paintings were shown at the

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in 1903, at the

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in 1906, and the

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in 1909. During

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he made many sketches of the trench life of the French soldiers, with titles such as "Sous les Marmites au poste de secours de la cote 204." After the war his paintings were shown at the Société nationale des Beaux-Arts. The last ten years of his life were spent in

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. In 1934 at the age of 52 he won the

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with a portrait of his friend the Swiss sculptor August Heng (1891-1968), but his bursary completed thereafter did not return home to France. However he did not show much interest in local art techniques, and modern Vietnamese art historians have critically compared his Frenchman-abroad approach with painters such as

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who took on Vietnamese techniques.Phòng, Quang and Tuy Trần. (1996). ''Mỹ thuật hiện đại Việt Nam''. Hà Nội: Mỹ Thuật. pp. 11, 13, 228. Art historian Nguyễn Quang Phòng in particular (1996) classes Barrière as representative of the second generation of French teachers he considers lacked the talent and even moral character of the first generation. Though other more recent Vietnamese writers have been more appreciative of Barrière. He died at the coastal resort of Đồ Sơn near

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Images of his works:
''Hondschoote''
1917. Watercolor, 3 1/2 x 5 1/8 in. (8.9 x 13.0 cm). Brooklyn Museum
''The Belfry of Berques''
September 1917. Watercolor, 3 1/2 x 8 1/16 in. (8.9 x 20.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum
''Le Cafard ("The 'Blues'")''
World War I Regiment painting
''Les gardiens - cour d'honneur''

Works sold by Sotheby's
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barriere, Georges 19th-century French painters 19th-century French male artists French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists 1881 births 1944 deaths