André Lhote
André Lhote (5 July 1885 – 24 January 1962) was a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes, and still life. He was also active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.
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André Lhote

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- Name
- André Lhote
- Born
- 5 July 1885
- Birthplace
- Bordeaux, France
- Died
- 24 January 1962
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Movement
- * Fauvism
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · sculptor · printmaker · art critic · teacher · graphic artist · artist · art historian
- Fields
- portrait
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André Lhote (5 July 1885 – 24 January 1962) was a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes, and still life. He was also active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — André Lhote • Born — 5 July 1885 • Birthplace — Bordeaux, France • Died — 24 January 1962 • Place of death — Paris, France • Movement — * Fauvism • Cubism
Early life and education
Early life and education
Lhote was born 5 July 1885 in Bordeaux, France, and learned wood carving and sculpture from the age of 12, when his father apprenticed him to a local furniture maker to be trained as a sculptor in wood. He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux in 1898 and studied decorative sculpture until 1904. Whilst there, he began to paint in his spare time and he left home in 1905, moving into his own studio to devote himself to painting. He was influenced by Gauguin and Cézanne and held his first one-man exhibition at the Galerie Druet in 1910, four years after he had moved to Paris.
Career
Career
After initially working in a Fauvist style, Lhote shifted towards Cubism and joined the Section d'Or group in 1912, exhibiting at the Salon de la Section d'Or. He was alongside some of the fathers of modern art, including Gleizes, Villon, Duchamp, Metzinger, Picabia and La Fresnaye. The outbreak of the First World War interrupted his work and, after discharge from the army in 1917, he became one of the group of Cubists supported by Léonce Rosenberg. In 1918, he co-founded Nouvelle Revue Française, the art journal to which he contributed articles on art theory until 1940. Lhote taught at the Académie Notre-Dame des Champs from 1918 to 1920, and later taught at other Paris art schools—including the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and his own school, Academy André Lhote which he founded in Montparnasse in 1922. He taught dozens of younger artists who would go on to become famous, including a remarkable number of whom (considering the era) were female: Elena Mumm Thornton Wilson, Kristin Saleri, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, Adamson-Eric, Simon Elwes, William Crozier, William Geissler, William Gillies, Elvire Geblesco Bibesco, Kuno Veeber, Charlotte van Pallandt, Wesley E. Johnson, Sava Šumanović, Margaret Lefranc, Shirley Russell, Gwyneth Johnstone, Paul Kane, Julie van der Veen, Michael Wishart, Lino Spilimbergo, Amalia Nieto, Héctor Sgarbi, Tamara de Lempicka, Sárika Góth, Berthe Edersheim, Nancy van Overveldt, Pierrette Bloch, Samir Rafi, Gerda Sutton, Sarah Marindah Baker, Genevieve Pezet, Shokouh Riazi, Javad Hamidi, Eren Eyüboğlu, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Elizabeth Rivers, Mainie Jellett, Helen Stewart, Anna-Eva Bergman, Borko Lazeski and Hans Hartung. Lhote lectured extensively in France and other countries, including Belgium, England, Italy and, from the 1950s, also in Egypt and Brazil. In Egypt, Lhote worked with Effat Nagy using Egyptian archaeology as subject matter for their work. His work was rewarded with the Grand Prix National de Peinture for 1955, and the UNESCO commission for sculpture appointed Lhote president of the International Association of Painters, Engravers and Sculptors.
Death
Death
Lhote died in Paris in 1962.
Gallery of works
Gallery of works
• Illustration — French Landscape, 1912, oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux • Illustration — L'Escale (The Stopover), 1913, oil on canvas, 210 x 185 cm, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris • Illustration — Sketch for L'Escale, 1913, published in Montjoie!, n.5, 14 April 1913 • Illustration — 14 July, Port de Bordeaux-Poincaré, 1913–14, oil on canvas, 65 x 81.5 cm, private collection • Illustration — Paysage de Mirmande or Le Guetteur, 1939, oil on canvas, 77.5 x 104.5 cm, private collection
Identity
Identity
André Lhote is recorded with the occupation painter. Classed in the genre portrait.

Identificatie Titel(s): Drie dansende vrouwen en matroos met vrouw L'Escale Zes houtsnedes met maritieme scènes (serietitel) Grand Largue (serietitel)
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Identificatie Titel(s): Drie vrouwen uit Afrika en twee matrozen Escale africaine Zes houtsnedes met maritieme scènes (serietitel) Grand Largue (serietitel)
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Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
Explore 1885–1971
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1885
André Lhote born at Bordeaux.
1962
André Lhote died at Paris.
1971
André Lhote, 1885-1962 is dated 1971.
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Documents and archives
scholarly publication
- L’École des lettres. Correspondances amicales entre jeunes artistes : Alain-Fournier, Jacques Rivière, André Lhote (1904-1914)
Scholarly · Crossref registry
- Lhote, André, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q463065: André Lhote
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- “André Lhote”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.André Lhote French artist. Encyclopedia Britannica.
- 2.Images and Insights, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery Of Modern Art, 1993,
- 3.Reginald Howard Wilenski, Modern French Painters, Harcourt, Brace, 1949
- 4.Andre Lhote French artist. Encyclopedia Britannica.
- 5.Gerda Sutton - Gallerease. gallerease.com.
- 6.Routledge. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. 19 December 2013. 978-1-135-63882-5.
- 7.Akoun, J. P. A. Akoun: répertoire biographique d'artistes de tous pays des XIXe et XXe siècles. CV-XIX-XX. Cote de l'amateur. 603. 2005. 9782859174293.
- 8.Frigeri, Flavia. New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms. Routledge. 2021-03-24. 978-0-429-64058-2.
- 9.Eren Eyüboğlu (1913-1988). Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Republic of Türkiye.
- 10.Bloom, Jonathan. Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set. OUP USA. 61. 2009-05-14. 978-0-19-530991-1.
- 11.Anna-Eva BERGMAN - Artist - Perrotin. www.perrotin.com.
- 12.Pioneers: Saad El-Khadem and Effat Nagy Museum, Youmna Salah, 1 January 2011, Masress.com, Retrieved 17 September 2015
- 13.André Lhote artnet. www.artnet.com.
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scholarly publication
L’École des lettres. Correspondances amicales entre jeunes artistes : Alain-Fournier, Jacques Rivière, André Lhote (1904-1914)Crossref registry
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Lhote, André, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011Crossref registry
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André Lhote studied at école des beaux-arts de Bordeaux. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
The authorities additionally record the headings Andre Lhote, Andre L'Hote, André Lhôte and Lhote. His recorded language was French. Lhote received Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Finnish National Gallery
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