Gaston Bussière (1862 Cuisery/Saône-et-Loire - 1928 Saulieu). Son of Victor B., brother of Emile B. Stud. Alexandre Cabanel (EcBA Paris) and, after the imminent departure of the acad. Canon, at Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Friendship with Albert Maignan, Gustave Moreau and Jean-Paul Laurens; Approaching to the Symbolists. 1886 Salon debut with Portr.; then, including La Gloire, 1890; inspired subjects of epic seals, Dante, Shakespeare, Berlioz and Wagner, Brunehild (Repr. as color lith., 1899;); La mort de Roland, 1893; Les ride; Ophélie; Tristan et Iseult; Ondine; Le réveil de Brunehild, 1907. Stud around 1900. graph. Techniques for Adolphe Lalauze, Luc-Olivier Merson and Abel Mignon; lithogr. Try; Wheel. and Kpst., mostly as Reprod. Of own paintings, including les travaux D´hercule, 12 wheel, 1903; Eros, 1904; Kol, Dernière nuit de Judas, 8. Kpst., 1908; Jeanne d´Arc, 1911. SP since 1897 Ill. to Balzac, Splendeurs et misères of the courtisanes, 1900; Les proscrits, 1905; Flaubert, legendary la de St-Julien l´hospitalier, 20 wheel, 1912; Hériodias 20 wheel, 1913; Salammbô, 70 wheel., 1921; Gautier, Emaux et Camées, 1923 Zchngn for Fantasio, L ´ ill., Monde Moderne. Orders for decorative painting of the Comte de Leusse (la vie de Jeanne d´Arc) and the Marquis de Barbantane (la Musique et la danse, Hôtel in the AV. Bosquet). 1905 relocation in the artist colony of Cerez-sur-Loing. Departure from the mytholog. Subjects; the pastoral scenes. P.: 1893 mention honorable; 1894. 3 KL, Prix Marie Bashkirtseff; 1908. 2. CL. and hors concours. 1917 Chevalier de la Légion d´honneur; 1922, gold-Med.; Member of the he Soc. des artistes Français.
WORKS Macoun, museumMun. the Ursulines: including Hélène, oil, 1895; Les filles Rhin, 1906 PARIS, BN, cab you. the estampes.
EXHIBITIONS G: Paris: 1893-95 Salon de la Rose-Croix; 1900 (bronze-Med. WA.
Literature: ThB5, 1911; Vo1, 1953. Livre d´Or, 1914; 1921; Edouard-Joseph I, 1930; DBF VII, 1956; RoyalAcadExhib I, 1973; Johnson/Greutzner, 1976; Bénézit II, 1976; Bailly-Herzberg, 1985; Hardouin-Fugier/Grafe, 1989; Fanelli/Godoli I, 1990; Osterwalder, 1890-1945, 1992. – E.Bussière, La vie et l´oeuvre de G.B., P. 1932; IFF, Après1800 III, 1942; G.Lacambre, French symbolist painters (K), Lo. 1972; Schurr III, 1976; L´Art d´Illustration (K), Wolfenbüttel 1986
Inscription: signed lower right.
Technique: oil on canvas. Art Nouveau style gold-plated frame.
Measurements: unframed w 12 1/4" x h 27 1/8" (31 x 69 cm ), framed w 31 1/2" x h 17 1/3" (80 x 44 cm).
Condition: in very good condition. |