Fabien Louis Pouilloux (18 January 1924 – 1 August 2016), better known by the

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of Louis Fabien, was a French painter. Louis Fabien Painting

Early life, family and education

Fabien was born in L'Isle-Jourdain in the French département of

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who used a modern form of

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. He painted in a realistic style and tried to capture colourful and charming moments. He exhibited his work in most of the important Paris salon shows and had one-man shows in many countries including France, the United States, Japan, England, and Germany. He began to show his work in the early 1950s in the

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, and in 1953 exhibited in the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, of which he was elected president in 1964 and in 1965. In 1957 he was accorded the Prix Greenshields. Fabien's paintings have been acquired by the French State, the City of Paris, and the Petit Palais of Geneva.

Personal life and demise

He died in

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in August 2016, at age 92.

References

Sources

*''Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs'', E. Bénézit, Paris
Biography of Louis Fabien at the Philips GalleriesBiography of Louis Fabien at the Austin Galleries

External links

LouisFabien.fr
(archived)
Paintings of Louis Fabien
at phillipsgalleries.net (archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Fabien, Louis 1924 births 2016 deaths 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters