Raymond Emmanuel Woog (25 October 1875,

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- 10 May 1949,

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) was a French painter, designer and illustrator.

Biography

He was a student of

Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau (; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".Cassou, Jean. 1979. ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Symbolism.' ...

at the

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. In 1903, he was one of the exhibitors at the first

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, where he received critical praise from

Arsène Alexandre Arsène Alexandre (16 August 1859, Paris – 1 October 1937, Brain sur Allonnes) was a French art critic. He was a contributor to ''L'Événement'', ''Le Paris'' and ''L'Éclair'' and in 1894 was one of the founders of the satirical journal ''L ...

. Two years later, he married Violette Julie Picard (1882-1968), whose father was a businessman. They had four daughters. In 1912, following the death of

Jules Comte Jules Victor Abel Eugène Jean Comte (17 October 1846, Paris - 14 December 1912, Paris) was a French art historian and government official. Life and work He studied at the Lycée Bonaparte (now the Lycée Condorcet), and was hired by the Minis ...

, founder of the ', Woog took over as provisional manager of the publication. This was interrupted in 1914, at the beginning of

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. The following year, he was inducted, and spent six months in

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. Upon being promoted to Lieutenant, he was posted as an

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to the

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. His sketches of English and French soldiers were published in 1916, as 32 plates in a canvas portfolio. It was a limited edition of 150 copies, with the title "Passed by Censor".''Raymond Woog, l'officier-artiste basé au Havre''
archives municipales du Havre. He was mustered out early in 1918. He began his career as an illustrator with a cover for the novel, ', by

André Maurois André Maurois (; born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog; 26 July 1885 – 9 October 1967) was a French author. Biography Maurois was born on 26 July 1885 in Elbeuf and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, both in Normandy. A member of ...

, who also served with British troops during the war. Woog is said to have been the inspiration for the novel's narrator, "Aurelle", a French interpreter. This served as his entry into the milieu of the

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, where he became a good friend of the journalist, . He would soon be a recognized illustrator for several publications. In 1928, he travelled to New York, for an exhibition of his works at the

Jacques Seligmann Jacques (Jacob) Seligmann (18 September 1858, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 30 October 1923, in Paris) was a highly successful antiquarian and art dealer with businesses in both Paris and New York. He was one of the first to foster American interest ...

gallery. Curiously, his reputation in the United States appears to have been based on his portraits of children. He did, in fact, perform several such commissions while there, but also painted portraits of notable people, such as

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.Jean Oudin, ''Raymond Woog'', Éditions de la Société nationale des beaux-arts, 1960. From 1933 to 1934, he was a regular collaborator with ''

Les Nouvelles littéraires ''Les Nouvelles littéraires'' was a French literary and artistic newspaper created in October 1922 by the Éditions Larousse. It disappeared in 1985 after having taken the title '. History ''Les Nouvelles littéraires'' were headed by from 1922 ...

''. He made many long stays in

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, where he specialized in painting flowers; a theme he would return to when he retired in 1940 and settled in

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. He was named a Knight in the

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in 1947.Documentation
@ the

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Selected paintings

Woog-Clemenceau.jpg,

Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (, also , ; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was a ...

(c.1925) Woog-Globe.jpg, Infant with Globe File:Ww1-09 par Raymond Woog.jpg, Sketches from ''Passed by Censor'' Woog-Conversation.jpg, The Conversation Woog-Casals.jpg,

Pablo Casals Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ; 29 December 187622 October 1973), usually known in English by his Castilian Spanish name Pablo Casals,

(1906)

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Biography

Selected paintings

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