HENRI LEBASQUE PAINTINGS FOR SALE & BIOGRAPHY
HENRI LEBASQUE
French, 1865–1937
BIOGRAPHY
Henri Lebasque was born in Champigné (Maine-et-Loire) and “studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angers, then, after moving to Paris in 1886, studied briefly under Bonnat, then under Humbert, whom he assisted in the decoration of the Panthéon. More importantly, he met and learned from Pissarro.
“In 1893 he met Luce and Signac at the Salon des Indépendants, and as a result he adopted Pointillism for a few years. In the 1900s he lived in Lagny with his family and painted landscapes of the neighbouring Marne forest. His painting underwent drastic changes when he discovered the south of the country. He would thereafter live in other French regions: Vendée, Brittany and Normandy, where he stayed at Les Andelys for some time, but his home from home was between Sanary and Nice.
“He painted members of his family in the settings in which he lived, mostly in Provence. His work shares some themes of his friend Bonnard. But although he exhibited with the Fauves, and admired Matisse, Rouault, Dufy, Valtat and Manguin (who introduced him to the Midi), he remained distinct from them in style. Lebasque was well known in his lifetime. He collaborated on the decorations of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and of the Atlantic liner Paris. He is remembered for: Nymphs at their Bath; The Sunshade; Girl with Hydrangeas; Great Nude on a Pink Sofa.
“He took part in the following collective exhibitions: Salon des Indépendants, 1886; Salon des Artistes Français; and later the Salon d'Automne, of which he was a founding member in 1903 and on whose committee he sat until his death. A set of his works was shown in 1937 at Masters of Independent Art (Maîtres de l'Art Indépendant) at the Petit Palais. In 1957, twenty years after his death, a retrospective exhibition was held at the Musée des Ponchettes in Nice, and in 1981 his works were exhibited at St-Paul-de-Vence.” [Benezit, Dictionary of Artists, Paris, 2006, vol. 8, pp. 663-4.]
Museum Collections
Albertina Museum, Vienna
Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco
Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Musée Albert André, Bagnols-sur-Cèze
Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin
Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
Musée d’Arts de Nantes, Nantes
Musée de l'Annonciade, Saint-Tropez
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Agen
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chambéry
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valence
Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Nice
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Musée Lambinet, Versailles
Musée Petiet de Limoux, Limoux
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Okayama
Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City
Petit Palais, Geneva
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
