Michel Guino (1926 - 2013) - Biography

Michel Guino (1926 - 2013) - Biography

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Michel Guino was born in Paris on September 28, 1926, to Gabrielle Borzeix and Richard Guino, the third of six children. It was in the studio of his father, a sculptor of Catalan origin, that he came into contact with the world of art and the world of...
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) - Biography

Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) - Biography

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Bernard Buffet was born in Paris in 1928. He showed an aptitude for drawing from an early age. He left the Lycée Carnot in 1943 and entered Eugène Narbonne's studio at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts the following year. The death of his mother in 1945 affected...

Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) - Biography

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Marc Chagall, whose real name was Moyshe Segal, was born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Belarus. The eldest of nine siblings, he grew up in a Jewish family steeped in religious culture. He attended the Jewish elementary school...
Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) - Biography

Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) - Biography

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"Painter of the contained richness, of the silent truths, of the deep and secret knowledge"[1] Georges Braque is one of the major artists of the twentieth century. "In rope with Picasso, he invented cubism, one of the most important revolutions of the 20th century.

Paul Delvaux (1897 - 1994) - Biography

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Born in 1897 in Antheit, Belgium, Paul Delvaux received a bourgeois education that was seen as a straitjacket. He studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, which he abandoned after one year. He returned to the Academy in 1919 in the studio of...

Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) - Biography

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Matisse was born in the North of France, in a region with a great textile tradition. He was born in Cateau-Cambrésis on December 31, 1869. After studying law, he worked as a lawyer's clerk. In 1890, convalescent following an operation for appendicitis, his wife, who was...