Pierre Grivolas (2 September 1823, Avignon - 5 February 1906, Avignon) was a French painter; known for landscapes, portraits and

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scenes.

Biography

After displaying an early talent for drawing, his parents enrolled him in art classes. In 1843, he won first prize in the Biennial Design Contest at the

Fondation Calvet La Fondation Calvet is an art foundation in Avignon, France, named for Esprit Calvet, who left his collections and library to it in 1810. The foundation maintains several museums and two libraries, with support from the town. The original legaci ...

, which came with a cash award that enabled him to continue his studies in Paris."Pierre Grivolas, la Nouvelle école d'Avignon"
@ the Fondation Calvet website. There, he was a student at the

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, where he met and was influenced by

Dominique Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: Britis ...

and

Hippolyte Flandrin Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (23 March 1809 – 21 March 1864) was a French Neoclassical painter. His most celebrated work, ''Study (Flandrin), Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer'' ("Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea"), from 1836, is held in ...

. In 1848, at the outbreak of the February Revolution, he returned to Avignon. He became one of the first members of the

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in 1854.

In 1877 the Soucieta Felibrenco dé Paris was founded by Baptiste Bonnet, Jean Barnabé Amy, Joseph Banquier, Antoine Duc (

Duc-Quercy Antoine-Joseph Duc (11 May 1856 – April 1934), known as Duc-Quercy and sometimes called Albert Duc-Quercy, was a French journalist and militant socialist. He was involved in several strikes in the coal mining areas of Aveyron. He twice ran unsu ...

), , Louis Gleize and Pierre Grivolas. The society created the journal ''Lou Viro-Souléu''. From 1878 until his death, Grivolas was the Director of the École des Beaux-Arts d'Avignon; steering his students away from

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by taking them on

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excursions to Les Angles and along the

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. He is credited with creating the art movement now known as the "Nouvelle école d'Avignon". In 1894, Grivolas invited his youngest brother, , a still-life painter, to leave his home on the Côte d'Azur and join him at his home near

Mont Ventoux Mont Ventoux (; oc, Ventor, label= Provençal ) is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some northeast of Carpentras, Vaucluse. On the north side, the mountain borders the department of Drôme. At , it is the highest ...

, where they lived like shepherds while making sketches. The following year, they moved to Monieux, a small village at the entrance to the . They spent the next season at Ventouret, near Aurel, attempting to capture the colors of the mountain landscape. A street in Avignon has been named after him.

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Arcadja Auctions: More works by Grivolas.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grivolas, Pierre 1823 births 1906 deaths 19th-century French painters French landscape painters French portrait painters French genre painters Artists from Avignon

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