Jean Puy (8 November 1876 in
Roanne
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,
Loire
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– 6 March 1960 in Roanne) was a French
Fauvist
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artist.
Life and work
He studied architecture at the
École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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and painting with
Jean-Paul Laurens
Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.
Biography
Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexa ...
at l'
Académie Julian between 1897 and 1898. He met
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...
and other like-minded artists when he transferred to the l'
Académie Carrière in 1899. He exhibited his work in 1901, then in an
Impressionist style, at the
Salon des Indépendants
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Arts and entertainment
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; later, as a Fauvist, he exhibited at the 1905
Salon d'Automne
The Salon d'Automne (; en, Autumn Salon), or Société du Salon d'automne, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris, France. Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The f ...
.
[Russell T. Clement, ''Les Fauves: A Sourcebook'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, p. 633](_blank)
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''L'Illustration'' related the Salon d'Automne "scandal" and published reproductions of several paintings dubbed Fauve, among which Jean Puy's ''Flânerie sous les pins (Strolling through pine woods)'', together with Louis Vauxcelles
Louis Vauxcelles (born Louis Meyer; 1 January 187021 July 1943) was a French art critic. He is credited with coining the terms '' Fauvism'' (1905) and ''Cubism'' (1908). He used several pseudonyms in various publications: Pinturrichio, Vasari, ...
' comment: "Mr. Puy, whose nude at the seashore reminds us of Cézanne's wide schematism, is presenting outdoor scenes where the volumes of things and beings are strongly established."[Fauvist painters Jean Puy, ''The Fauvists and the Salon d'Automne''](_blank)
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References
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1876 births
1960 deaths
People from Roanne
19th-century French painters
French male painters
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
Fauvism
19th-century French male artists