Suisse Gaston
Born on 1st December 1898 in Paris, died on 7th March 1988 in Paris, Gaston Suisse was considered, together with Paul Jouve as one of the most important French animal/nature painters. Graduated in 1913 from the Ecole Graduate School of Decorative Arts in Paris. He got in touch with the nature/animal works of Paul Jouve […]
Scott Georges
Born on 10.06.1873 in Paris. Georges Scott (a French citizen despite the English-sounding name) was a son of an engraver and illustrator. He was a student of Ed. Detaille. He started his career in the 1890s and worked as war correspondent for the newsmagazine ‘I’ Illustration’ during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13. When war broke […]
Salvat Francois
Born on 12.06.1892 in Amelies-Bains. Lived and worked in Paris. Student of Cormon. In 1936 he moved to Greece. Later in his career he was a well-known illustrator (he illustrated the books of Victor Hugo, Balzac etc.) and a director of the publishing house Éditions Grasset. His paintings can be found at the Museum of […]
Portier Marguerite
Born and lived in Lyon, travelled extensively through North Africa, Spain, Italy, The Balkans. She created a series of watercolors of Ohrid from 1930s (she labeled all the watercolors with Ohrid Serbia. One of these watercolors is in the collection of the author of this lexicon.
Point Armant
Born in Algiers, 23.10.1861; died in Marlotte, Seine-et-Marne, March 1932. Armand Point was very well-known French Symbolist painter and designer. He began his career painting the Algerian scenes of his youth, rendering Orientalist subjects—such as markets and musicians—with a distinctive, unaffected precision. In 1888 he went to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts […]
Pigassou Joseph
Born in Narbonne on 14.08.1878, died in Mas-Grenier in 1961. Amateur photographer and painter. Studied literature and philosophy at the Seminare in Narbonne. He wanted to be a professional painter, but under pressure of his family he studied medicine in Toulouse. He started to practice photography and watercolor painting first on his trip to Tunisia […]
Picard F.
19th century French illustrator and painter. A work entitled “Vue de la baie de Salonique, 1854” was sold via the auction house Desamais, Avignon, France on 12.08.1991 (lot number 132).
Noll Alexandre
Born in Reims on 18 May 1890, died in Fontenay-aux-Roses on 30 November 1970, Alexander Noll was well known French sculptor, painter and graphic designer. He is mainly known by his furniture creations, where he used different species of wood. His works of art can be found in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris […]
Miklos Gustave
Born in Budapest 1888, died in Oyonnax 1967. He studied at the Decorative Arts School in Budapest. In 1909 Miklos settled in Paris. He became a naturalized French citizen and made acquaintances with renown Hungarian/French sculptor Josephy Csaky. In Paris, he frequented the Cubist exhibitions. He designed beautiful jewelry enamels, silver and carpets and soon […]
Marquet Albert
Born on 27-March -1875 in Bordeaux, died on 14-June-1947 in Paris. He is considered as one of the most important French painters from the “Fauvist” movement (“The wild ones”). He started is art career working and living with Henri Matisse and later in 1892 working with Gustave Moreau at the Paris School of Fine Arts. […]
