Les nabis

Portrait of Paul Ranson by Georges Lacombe Continuing the theme of artists associated with Les Nabis, I’m taking a look at the work of Paul Ranson (1864 – 1909). Ranson was born in Limoges, France. As the son of a successful local politician, he received permission to pursue his artistic dreams and started studying at the Ecoles des Arts Décoratifs in Limoges, but transferred to the more prestigious Académie Julian in Paris in 1886. In 1888, at the Académie, he met Paul Sérusier who…

Felix Vallotton, Moonlight, 1894 Felix Vallotton, Landscape in the Jura Mountains, 1900 via A Long Time Alone Felix Vallot...

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Georges Lacombe, Landscape, circa 1894 gouache on paper

Alexander Rothaug - "The three Parcae" (1910)

The French artist's depiction of anonymity and claustrophobia is jarring in its harmoniousness; this tension speaks to us now, more than ever, argues Alice Bergin.

Gauguin Post-Impressionistm, Nabism, Japonism, and finally Divisionist Post-Impressionism – not bad for someone known as a sculptor.

Maurice Denis "Eartly Paradise" - 1892.