Étienne Terrus
Illustration — Bust of Étienne Terrus by Aristide Maillol, Elne • Illustration — Vue d'Elne par Étienne Terrus (v. 1900) Étienne Joseph Mathieu Terrus (22 September 1857 in Elne, Pyrénées-Orientales – 22 June 1922 in Elne) was a French painter from Roussillon. When he was 17 years old, he went to Paris to study but soon after, he went back to Elne, where he produced most of his works.
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Étienne Terrus
Étienne Terrus · Public domain
- Born
- 1857 · Elne.
- Died
- 1922 · Elne.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Languages
- Spanish · French
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He used to walk with his easel and he is considered one of the precursors of Fauvism. During his life, he was very much appreciated by artists like George-Daniel de Monfreid, André Derain, and Henri Matisse, who was his penpal from 1905 to 1917. In 1994, a museum about him was inaugurated in his birth town, and, in 1998, his works were shown in the exhibition "Le Roussillon à l'origine de l'Art Moderne" in Perpignan. The Terrus Museum in Elne in the south of France is dedicated to paintings by Terrus. In 2018, it was discovered that more than half its collection, 82 works, were counterfeit. It was thought that works by other regional artists in other locations might also be counterfeit.
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Étienne Terrus, a painter, was born on 21 September 1857 and died on 22 June 1922. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Étienne Terrus
Environs de Collioure d'Étienne Terrus, fin 19e siècle, début 20e siècle.
Étienne Terrus · Own work, Tylwyth Eldar, 2019-01-25 14:00:33
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1857
Étienne Terrus born at Elne.
1922
Étienne Terrus died at Elne.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q290115: Étienne Terrus
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- 1.Autorité BnF.
- 2.Page sur Étienne Terrus sur le site de la mairie de Perpignan.
- 3.« Terrus, Étienne (1857 - 1922), Painter, watercolourist », notice du Dictionnaire Bénézit.
- 4.« Musée Terrus », sur ville-elne.fr).
- 5.Musée municipal (Cf. « Musée Terrus », sur ville-elne.fr).
- 6.Antoine Mestre et Léo Ruiz, « L'art des faux », in: Society, Paris, , mai-juin 2018, .
- 7.Pyrénées-Orientales : la moitié des tableaux d'un musée sont des faux, préjudice estimé à. francetvinfo.fr. 27/04/2018.
- 8.Le musée Terrus d'Elne victime d'escroquerie aux faux tableaux. francebleu.fr. vendredi 27 avril 2018.
- 9.Faussaire illustres. Actes Sud. 2018. 978-2-330-11640-8.
- 10.Monument à Étienne Terrus, notice sur inventaire-patrimoine-culturel.cr-languedocroussillon.fr.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Jean-Paul Alduy, Jean-Pierre Barou, Bertrand Lorquin, Roseline Bacou, Le Roussillon à l'origine de l'art moderne 1894-1908, Montpellier, Indigène éditions, 1998, 96 p. .
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