Joachim Gasquet (31 March 1873 – 6 May 1921) was a French author, poet, and art critic.
Biography
Early life
Joachim Gasquet was born in 1873 in
Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...
.
Career
He was an author, poet and art critic. He is best known for his writing about the artists of his era, particularly
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...
, a friend and business partner.
[Sidney Geist, ''Interpreting Cézanne'', ]Harvard University Press
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, 1989, page 2
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His 1921 book, ''Cézanne'', is a testament to the life of the artist, whose work Gasquet had known since an 1895 exhibition at Aix-en-Provence.
Personal life
He married Marie Gasquet
Marie Gasquet (1872–1960) was a French regionist writer from Provence.
Biography Early life
Marie Gasquet was born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône in 1872. Her father, Marius Girard, was a Provençal poet. Her godfather was Frà ...
in 1896.
He died in 1921.
Bibliography
*''Cézanne''
*''Narcisse''
*''Les Printemps''
*''Les Champs de la Foret''
*''Il y a une volupte dans la douleur''
*''Les Bienfaits de la guerre''
*''Les Chants seculaires''
*''Le Bucher secret''
*''L'Arbre et les vents''
*''Tu ne tueras point''
*''Quinze aquarelles de pierre laprade pour les chansons d'arlequin.''
References
1873 births
1921 deaths
French biographers
French art critics
French poets
Writers from Aix-en-Provence
French male poets
French male non-fiction writers
Male biographers
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