Paul Sordes (9 February 1877 – 20 May 1937) was a French
painter
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from Paris and set designer who was an original member of ''
Les Apaches
Les Apaches (or Société des Apaches) was a group of musicians, writers and artists which formed in Paris, France in 1903. The core was formed by the French composer Maurice Ravel, the Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes and the writer and critic Mic ...
'', a group of artists in early 20th-century Paris whose most famous member was
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In ...
. It was at Sordes' studio home at 39
rue Dulong
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above
Montmartre
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that the group regularly met on Saturdays.
In fact, the first meeting of the group occurred at his studio in either June 1902 or May 1903.
Around 1900,
Tristan Klingsor
Tristan Klingsor, birth name (Arthur Justin) Léon Leclère (born Lachapelle-aux-Pots, Oise department, 8 August 1874; died Nogent-sur-Marne, 3 August 1966), was a French poet, musician, painter and art critic, best known for his artistic associat ...
first met Sordes at the
Salon des Indépendants
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in Paris, where he was impressed by Sordes' drawings and watercolors.
Klingsor called him ''une sorte de Ravel de la palette'' in an obituary, and Ravel dedicated ''Une barque sur l'océan'' from the piano suite ''
Miroirs
upRavel in 1907
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'' to him.
His brother Charles Sordes was also a member of ''Les Apaches''.
References
1877 births
1937 deaths
Painters from Paris
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
French male painters
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