Maurice Lobre (1862–1951) was a French artist. He was born in

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and died in

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. Lobre first gained recognition in the late 19th century when his work was displayed at the

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. In 1888 he received an honorary mention and a travel grant from the Salon. That summer he traveled to

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where he stayed with Jacques-Émile Blanche. By this time, Blanche regularly hosted popular artists.

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and Whistler were among his most prominent guests. By the turn of the 20th century, Lobre produced work in the Intimist style. His motifs were dominated by comfortable bourgeois settings. In April 1905, his work was displayed alongside other practitioners of the style in a collective exhibit at Henri Gervex's galleries. The exhibit featured pieces by

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– who coined the term "intimiste" to describe his own paintings –

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Hermann-Paul René Georges Hermann-Paul (27 December 1864 – 23 June 1940) was a French artist. He was born in Paris and died in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He was a well-known illustrator whose work appeared in numerous newspapers and periodicals. His fine art ...

, Rene Prinet and Ernest Laurent. Lobre was granted prominent space for his "delicious interiors of the Chateau of Versailles". The star of 1908's Salon du Champs-de-Mars was unquestionably Rodin, but Lobre was "well represented",''The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs'' Vol. 13, No. 63 (Jun. 1908), pp. 177-181 and his prominence increased during the period before the

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. Lobre was close to the poet

Robert de Montesquiou Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (7 March 1855, Paris – 11 December 1921, Menton) was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, painter, art collector, art interpreter, and dandy. He is reputed to have been the inspira ...

who dedicated his collection of sonnets, ''Les Perles rouges'' (1899) to him. When Europe descended into chaos in the summer of 1914, Maurice Lobre helped depict its atrocities. Some of the work he produced during this period is now part of the Smithsonian collection and grouped with fellow Intimists

and Ernest Laurent.

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