Roger bezombes biography

Painter, printmaker, and sculptor Roger Bezombes was.
Roger Bezombes was born in 1913 in Paris, France.
Roger Bezombes was a French painter who was born in 1913.

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Roger Bezombes

Roger Bezombes, né le à Paris 19^e et mort le à Ivry-sur-Seine, est un peintre, graveur (lithographe et aquafortiste), médailleur et sculpteurfrançais de la seconde École de Paris.

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Contraint, parce qu'orphelin très jeune, à toutes sortes de professions qui lui assurent les moyens matériels de s'adonner à la peinture — il participe en 1930 à l'installation de l'exposition du Bauhaus au Grand Palais —, Roger Bezombes est élève de l'École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. S'il est formé à l'art de la fresque par Paul Baudoüin, René Barotte n'en restitue pas moins que la préférence du jeune homme va à la pratique de « l'école buissonnière » qu'il met à profit pour faire des copies au Musée du Louvre^[1]. C'est l'époque où les peintures de Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh et Henri Matisse lui sont révélées par Maurice Denis^[2] dont il demeurera proche jusqu'au décès accidentel de celui-ci, le peignant sur son lit mortuaire le .

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Painter, printmaker, and sculptor Roger Bezombes was born on January 17, 1913, in Paris, France. Orphaned as a child, he spent much of his teen and young adult years working a variety of jobs to support his painting career, including helping to install the major 1930 Bauhaus exhibition at the Grand Palais. When he was of age he enrolled in the Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts where he studied under Paul Boudouin and Rene Barotte, and would spend his available hours copying the works of old masters at the Louvre. His friend, artist maurice Denis, introduced him to the works of Gaugin, Van Gogh, and Matisse, all of whom would remain influences throughout Bezombes' career.

In 1936 he won his first major award, the second Grand Prix de Rome, and the same year was given a travel grant to study in Africa. He continued his travels into the following year, living for a time in Morocco before returning to Paris for his first major solo exhibition at the Charpentier Gallery. He would continue to exhibit and travel regularly, including through the Second World War. In 1950,

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Roger Bezombes (1913-1994) “in The Wave” 1971 »

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Roger BEZOMBES (1913-1994) "Dans la vague" 1971 "Iron (red patina, cast iron medal in tilting iron)/rocking base Signed and numbered 10/75 Height 31.5 x 31 cm Exhibition: Musée de la Monnaie, Paris, 1972, reproduced in the catalogue Reproduced on page 89 of the catalogue Roger Bezombes, born on 17 January 1913 in Paris and died on 9 August 1994 in Ivry-sur-Seine, was a French painter, engraver (lithographer and etcher) and sculptor of the second School of Paris. Based on the Quai Saint-Michel in Paris, Roger Bezombes became a professor at the Académie Julian, rue du Dragon, in 19504. The year 1951 was for him the year of a trip to Greece and the year in which he began his relationship with the work of tapestry3. Roger Bezombes visited Palestine in 1953, Tunisia and Egypt in 1954. He was appointed official painter of the Navy in 1955. Pierre Mazars analyses that "after a period in which we notice the influence of Van Gogh and Braque, particularly in his landscapes of