Léon Fauché (1868-1950) Briey, Lorraine: "parisian Scene" Watercolor 1930s

Léon FAUCHÉ (1868-1950) Briey, Lorraine: "Parisian scene" Watercolor signed lower left Painter, he was born in Briey in 1868 and died in 1950. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nancy and that of Paris where his teachers were Aimé Morot and Chatran. He was a studio comrade of Toulouse Lautrec, Dethomas and Anquetin. In 1889 he participated alongside Paul Gauguin, Louis Schuffenecker, Louis Anquetin, Emile Bernard and a few other painters in the Volpini Exhibition in Paris. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, at the Salon de la Société Nationale with portraits and peasant genre scenes and he participated in the organization of the Salon des Refusés in 1901. He founded the Association L'Atelier with Armand Point. He also sent works to the Salon de Nancy. He painted landscapes, portraits, interior scenes and still lifes.