Lucie Cousturier: An artist among the Neo-Impressionists.
Gourcuff Gradenigo| N° d'inventaire | 31782 |
| Format | 20 x 25 |
| Détails | 144 p., numerous color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782353404193 |
A woman artist and art critic, Lucie Cousturier has developed a
personal and original work in the wake of the neo-impressionist artists. She was born into a wealthy family who owned a
doll factory: Les Poupées Brû (named after his father
Léon Casimir Brû). She was a student of Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond
Cross and painted in a style close to these painters. Married in 1900
to Edmond Cousturier, painter and art critic, she exhibited at the Salon
independents in 1901, then in 1906 at the Salon de la libre esthétique in Brussels and at the Berliner Secession in Berlin. She painted
works with "moderate pointillism" from which she also knows how to free herself. Her
painting reflects his life and the places he lives in: the rooftops of Paris, the Bois de
Boulogne, the landscapes of Provence. She finds her subjects around
of her: she paints her son François born in 1901, but also others
members of his family. Still lifes and bouquets of flowers
are numerous. She is organizing her first solo exhibition in
1907 at the Druet gallery, 39 paintings and 32 drawings are presented there.
From 1911 onwards, she wrote various articles and monographs on
members of this movement (Georges Seurat, Paul Signac,
Henri-Edmond Cross, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Maurice Denis). Its
understanding of the theory of neo-impressionist painting
make her the first specialist of this movement.
During the First World War, she lived in Fréjus in a house next to which the riflemen's quarters were located.
Senegalese before their arrival at the front. She decided to improve the soldiers' learning of the French language and organized in this
aim of literacy classes at his home.
In 1921 and 1922, commissioned by the French government to study
"the indigenous family environment and especially the role of women",
she made a trip to French West Africa, including
She brings back numerous paintings and three books which tell this story
journey. Lucie Cousturier is a pioneer on this subject, before
other committed French intellectuals like André Gide or
Michel Leiris. The portraits she creates are far from representations
stereotypes of African peoples that prevailed at the time. Revenue
In France, she wrote in Le Paria, “newspaper of the black proletariats and
yellows”, and devoted the end of his life to the fight for the emancipation of these peoples.
His work presents a variety of themes and his style changes
during his life, moving from a controlled neo-impressionism to
spontaneous watercolors created during his many travels
A woman artist and art critic, Lucie Cousturier has developed a
personal and original work in the wake of the neo-impressionist artists. She was born into a wealthy family who owned a
doll factory: Les Poupées Brû (named after his father
Léon Casimir Brû). She was a student of Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond
Cross and painted in a style close to these painters. Married in 1900
to Edmond Cousturier, painter and art critic, she exhibited at the Salon
independents in 1901, then in 1906 at the Salon de la libre esthétique in Brussels and at the Berliner Secession in Berlin. She painted
works with "moderate pointillism" from which she also knows how to free herself. Her
painting reflects his life and the places he lives in: the rooftops of Paris, the Bois de
Boulogne, the landscapes of Provence. She finds her subjects around
of her: she paints her son François born in 1901, but also others
members of his family. Still lifes and bouquets of flowers
are numerous. She is organizing her first solo exhibition in
1907 at the Druet gallery, 39 paintings and 32 drawings are presented there.
From 1911 onwards, she wrote various articles and monographs on
members of this movement (Georges Seurat, Paul Signac,
Henri-Edmond Cross, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Maurice Denis). Its
understanding of the theory of neo-impressionist painting
make her the first specialist of this movement.
During the First World War, she lived in Fréjus in a house next to which the riflemen's quarters were located.
Senegalese before their arrival at the front. She decided to improve the soldiers' learning of the French language and organized in this
aim of literacy classes at his home.
In 1921 and 1922, commissioned by the French government to study
"the indigenous family environment and especially the role of women",
she made a trip to French West Africa, including
She brings back numerous paintings and three books which tell this story
journey. Lucie Cousturier is a pioneer on this subject, before
other committed French intellectuals like André Gide or
Michel Leiris. The portraits she creates are far from representations
stereotypes of African peoples that prevailed at the time. Revenue
In France, she wrote in Le Paria, “newspaper of the black proletariats and
yellows”, and devoted the end of his life to the fight for the emancipation of these peoples.
His work presents a variety of themes and his style changes
during his life, moving from a controlled neo-impressionism to
spontaneous watercolors created during his many travels