Jean Puy
Illustration — Jean Puy, 1905, Flânerie sous les pins, oil on canvas, 81 x 115 cm, Musée Paul-Dini de Villefranche-sur-Saône. Exhibited at the 1905 Salon d'Automne • Illustration — Harfleur, 1920, oil on canvas, 54.3 x 65.3 cm, Courtauld Institute of Art, London Jean Puy (8 November 1876 in Roanne, Loire – 6 March 1960 in Roanne) was a French Fauvist artist.
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Jean Puy
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- Born
- 1876 · Roanne.
- Died
- 1960 · Roanne.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- French painting
- Education
- Académie Julian · École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon
- Teachers
- Tony Tollet
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Jean Puy, 1905, Flânerie sous les pins, oil on canvas, 81 x 115 cm, Musée Paul-Dini de Villefranche-sur-Saône. Exhibited at the 1905 Salon d'Automne • Illustration — Harfleur, 1920, oil on canvas, 54.3 x 65.3 cm, Courtauld Institute of Art, London Jean Puy (8 November 1876 in Roanne, Loire – 6 March 1960 in Roanne) was a French Fauvist artist.
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Jean Puy studied at Académie Julian and École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. Training under Tony Tollet is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is French painting. Work by Jean Puy is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay, Bratislava City Gallery, Musée d'art moderne de Paris, Hermitage Museum and National Museum of Western Art.
He studied architecture at the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon and painting with Jean-Paul Laurens at l'Académie Julian between 1897 and 1898. He met Henri Matisse and other like-minded artists when he transferred to the l'Académie Carrière in 1899. He exhibited his work in 1901, then in an Impressionist style, at the Salon des Indépendants; later, as a Fauvist, he exhibited at the 1905 Salon d'Automne. L'Illustration related the Salon d'Automne "scandal" and published reproductions of several paintings dubbed Fauve, among which Jean Puy's Flânerie sous les pins (Strolling through pine woods), together with Louis Vauxcelles' comment: "Mr. Puy, whose nude at the seashore reminds us of Cézanne's wide schematism, is presenting outdoor scenes where the volumes of things and beings are strongly established." Colors! Engaging, captivating, bewitching, coaxing, entrancing, ravishing colors! It seems we'll never stop feasting our eyes on them… (Jean Puy)
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Jean Puy is recorded as having studied at Académie Julian and École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon.
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1876
Jean Puy born at Roanne.
1960
Jean Puy died at Roanne.
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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
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- OpenStreetMap gazetteer entry for Jean Puy, Avenue Gambetta, Roanne, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France métropolitaine, 42300, France
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1685780: Jean Puy
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OpenStreetMap gazetteer entry for Jean Puy, Avenue Gambetta, Roanne, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France métropolitaine, 42300, FranceOpenStreetMap Foundation
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Formation and teaching. Puy studied at Académie Julian and École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. He trained under Tony Tollet.
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Musée d'Orsay, Bratislava City Gallery, Musée d'art moderne de Paris and Hermitage Museum
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