Georges Pierre BOUCHE (1874 – 1941) painter from Lyon

In front of the artist’s house in Marnat in Auvergne

Oil on board signed lower left
Size: 46 x 55cm
With frame: 64 x 73 cm

Price: 1200 euro

We find here the singular technique of the painter; its thick and unctuous paste worked with a brush and sometimes with fingers, with a sober palette in brown, gray and green tones.

A student of architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, he moved to Paris where he binds with Pierre Laprade with whom he founds a common workshop. After leaving Laprade, he marries Émilie Charmy. He exhibited from 1902 at the Salon d’Automne, at the Salon des Indépendants and at the National Society of Fine Arts, but it was especially during the Retrospective of the Independents of 1926 that he was noticed with the paintings Ma grand-mère, Paysage du Dauphiné, Landscape in Auvergne, View of Notre Dame, Games and Palette and brushes.

Bibliography :

•Édouard-Joseph, Biographical dictionary of contemporary artists, volume 1, AE, Art & Édition, 1930, p. 172

•Bénézit, 1976, 1999

•Raymond Charmet, Concise encyclopedia of modern art, 1974, p. 31

•Philippe Chabert, Pierre Wat, Gérard Barrière, George Bouche, 1874-1941, Museum of Modern Art in Troyes, 1999, 95 p.

Museum:

. Paul Dini Museum – Villefranche-sur- Saône.

. Troyes – Museum of Modern Art

. Besançon Museum of Fine Arts

. Grenoble Museum of Fine Arts

. Beauvais-MUDO-Musée de l’Oise.

. Paris-Musée Rodin.