Pierre Laprade Characters In A Park Oil On Wood Panel, Early 20th Century Around 1930

Pierre Laprade Characters in a park Oil on wood panel, early 20th century around 1930 Dimensions: Length x height: 87 cm x 82 cm with frame » » : 64 cm x 59 cm on view Laprade Pierre French painter, watercolourist, painter of cartoons, tapestries, painter on ceramics, painter of theatre sets, engraver, draftsman, illustrator. Pierre Laprade born in Narbonne in 1875, died in Fontenay-aux-Roses between 1931 and 1932, . Pupil of Marre in Montauban, then of Bourdelle in Paris, he debuted at the Salon in 1901 and travelled to Holland and Italy. Active in Paris and Marseille. Coming from a bourgeois and cultivated background, devoted to the judiciary, he nevertheless lived only for his art. Painter of intimism, influenced by the impressionists, even if his favorite themes are interiors and landscapes. He will nevertheless remain an independent painter, convinced that "art is not learned in books or in lessons as academic as fossils". Revered by his peers and adulated by his contemporaries following Bonnard and Vuillard, Pierre Laprade will know how to protect himself from all the pitfalls of the great emerging fair of the Art market, unlike the many painters of the time who succumbed to the delights of an ephemeral glory.