Paul Sérusier - Le nabi aux sabots de bois

Paul Sérusier (1864-1927) est un peintre postimpressionniste, à l'origine du mouvement artistique d'avant-garde des nabis.
Paul Sérusier was born in Paris. He studied at the Académie Julian and was a monitor there in the mid-1880s. In the summer of 1888 Sérusier travelled to Pont-Aven and joined the small group of artists centered there around Paul Gauguin. While at the Pont-Aven artist's colony he painted a picture that became known as The Talisman, under the close supervision of Gauguin. The picture was an extreme exercise in Cloisonnism that approximated to pure abstraction. He was a Post-Impressionist painter, a part of the group of painters called Les Nabis. Paul Sérusier, along with Paul Gauguin, named the group. Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis became the best known of the group, but at the time they were somewhat peripheral to the core group.

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Journal de l’art moderne - Skira
Dictionnaire universel de la peinture – Le Robert
Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
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