Paul Sérusier

Paul Sérusier (1864—1927) was a French painter.

Education

He studied at the Académie Julian and was a monitor there in the mid 1880s [Arthur Wesley Dow, Joseph Masheck, "Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers" University of California Press, 1998. ISBN 0520207491] . In the summer of 1888 he travelled to Pont-Aven and joined the small group of artists centered there around Paul Gauguin [Bennard B Perlman: "Robert Henri: His Life and Art," page 17. Courier Dover Publications, 1991. ISBN 0486267229] . While at the Pont-Aven artist's colony he painted "The Talisman" under the close supervision of Gauguin. [Harrison, Wood, Gaiger (editors): "Art in Theory, 1815 – 1900" page 1020. Balckwell, 1998. ISBN 0631200665.] He was a Post-Impressionist painter, a part of the group of painters called Les Nabis. Sérusier along with Paul Gauguin named the group. Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis became the best known of the group, but at the time they were somewhat peripheral to the core group.

He later taught at the Académie Ranson and published his book "ABC de la peinture" in 1921.

Writings

* "ABC de la peinture", La Douce France & Henri Floury, Paris 1921: - Second edition, accompanied by a study on Sérusier's life and work, by Maurice Denis, Librairie Floury, Paris 1942: - Third edition, accompanied by an unpublished correspondence, collected by Madame P. Sérusier and annotated by Mademoiselle H. Boutaric, Librairie Floury, Paris 1950

Resources

Notes

References

* "Gauguin and the Nabis: Prophets of Modernism" by Arthur Ellridge. Terrail, 1995.
* "The Nabis: Bonnard, Vuillard and Their Circle" by Claire Freches-Thory (Author), Antoine Terrasse (Author). Flammarion, 2003.
* "The Nabis and the Parisian Avant-Garde" by Patricia Eckert Boyer (Editor), Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Elizabeth Prelinger. Rutgers University Press, 1988.
* "The Nabis and Their Period" by Charles Chassé. Lund Humphries, 1969.
* "The Nabis, Their History and Their Art, 1888-1896" by George Mauner. Garland Publishing, 1978.
* Frèches-Thory, Claire, & Perucchi-Petry, Ursula, ed.: "Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne", Kunsthaus Zürich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993 ISBN 3791319698 (German), (French)

External links

* [http://www.abcgallery.com/S/serusier/serusier.html Sérusier at Olga's Gallery]
* [http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Paul_Serusier/biography.html biography]