Jean Despujols ( Salles en Gironde 19 March 1886-

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, 1965) was a French, later naturalised American, painter. He was a pupil of Paul Quinsac at the école des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux. In 1914 he won the

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for painting but the outbreak of

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suspended the French residencies at the

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. He had his stay in Rome after the war with his fellow painter

Jean Dupas Jean Théodore Dupas (21 February 1882 – 6 September 1964) was a French painter, artist, designer, poster artist, and decorator in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. Life Dupas was born in Bordeaux. He won the Prix de Rome for painting in ...

. His associations with America began in 1924-1936 as a teacher of the American art students sent to study at the École des Beaux-Arts de Fontainebleau. In 1936, he won the

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, and was selected by the Grand Conseil Economique of French

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to undertake a tour of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos painting and drawing what he saw. When World War II broke out he emigrated to America, settling in Louisiana, and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Shreveport. The Texas oil millionaire

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acquired a 360-piece collection of oil paintings and watercolors in 1969 and the

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was built to house these paintings.Louisiana - Page 375 Richard Bizier - 1999 -"Interesting collection of 360 works by American painter Jean Despujols depicting lndochina in the thirties."

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