Georges Lacombe
Illustration — Marine bleue, Effet de vagues, 1893, tempera on toile, 49 x 65 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes • Illustration — Georges Lacombe, 1894, 1896, L'Existence, carved wood (Bas-relief en bois de noyer), 68.5 x 141.5 x 6 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris Georges Lacombe (18 June 1868 – 29 June 1916) was a French sculptor and painter.
Georges Lacombe
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- Name
- Georges Lacombe
- Born
- 18 June 1868
- Birthplace
- Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
- Died
- 29 June 1916
- Place of death
- Alençon, Orne, France
- Education
- Académie Julian
- Occupation
- * Sculptor
- Nationality
- France.
- Fields
- portrait.
- Movements
- Les Nabis and Symbolism.
- Known for
- Violet wave, Vorhor, the Green Wave, Three Breton Women in the Forest, Marine bleue, effet de vague, La forêt au sol rouge and La Mer jaune.
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Illustration — Marine bleue, Effet de vagues, 1893, tempera on toile, 49 x 65 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes • Illustration — Georges Lacombe, 1894, 1896, L'Existence, carved wood (Bas-relief en bois de noyer), 68.5 x 141.5 x 6 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris Georges Lacombe (18 June 1868 – 29 June 1916) was a French sculptor and painter.
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• Name — Georges Lacombe • Born — 18 June 1868 • Birthplace — Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France • Died — 29 June 1916 • Place of death — Alençon, Orne, France • Education — Académie Julian • Occupation — * Sculptor • painter
Early life
Early life
Born to a distinguished family of Versailles, he received his artistic training at the Académie Julian from the impressionists Alfred Philippe Roll and Henri Gervex.
The Nabis
The Nabis
At the Académie Julian he met Émile Bernard and Paul Sérusier in 1892, shortly afterwards becoming a member of their artist group, Les Nabis. Like many other Nabi he spent the summers from 1888 to 1897 in Brittany, some sources record that he met Bernard and Sérusier there. He became Le Nabi sculpteur: the sculptor of the group. In fact many sources refer to him solely as sculptor.
Death
Death
Georges Lacombe died of tuberculosis in Alençon, Orne on 29 June 1916, eleven days after his 48th birthday.
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1868
Georges Lacombe was born on 18 June 1868.
1916
Georges Lacombe died on 29 June 1916.
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References and sources
References Sources • Frèches-Thory, Claire, & Perucchi-Petry, Ursula, ed.: Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne, Kunsthaus Zürich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993.
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