Bignou Gallery Albums, circa 1930s-1940s.

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, 1796-1875

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French landscape painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Alexandre Cabanel, [1868?] Nov. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526754 Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was a French painter, who inspired the landscape painting of the Impressionists. From the description of Letter : from Jean Corot [manuscript]. 1860 Jun. 19. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222753692 French painter. From the description of Lette...

Modigliani, Amedeo, 1884-1920

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Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917

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French artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed (pneumatique) : [postmark Paris], to Lucien Pissarro, [1903 Nov. 17]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870644 French painter, lithographer and sculptor. From the description of Letters, 1879-ca. 1901. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83749766 Hilaire Degas was a French artist known for his drawings and paintings of ballerinas and race horses. From the description o...

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri ˜deœ 1864-1901

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Lurçat, Jean, 1892-1966

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French painter and tapestry designer. From the description of Papers, [1929?]-[1932?]. (National Gallery of Art Library). WorldCat record id: 122397360 ...

Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919

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French painter. From the description of Letters, 1882-1919. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 146000012 From the description of Autograph postal card signed : [postmark: Paris], to Monsieur Wyzewa, [1897 Dec. 22]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872160 ...

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954

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Matisse was born in 1869 to generations of weavers in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, a northern French town whose woolen mills constituted the main industry. He was raised in nearby Bohain, famous for its luxury fabrics. This early exposure to textiles would shape his visual language: examples from his own collection of carpets and cloths from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East would deeply inform his sense of color and pattern and appear in his compositions. Taking up painting after first studyin...

Monet, Claude, 1840-1926

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French artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Etretat, to Frédéric Bazille, 1869 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871540 Claude Monet, 1840-1926, was an Impressionist painter. From the description of Letter : from Claude Monet [manuscript]. 1915 Jan. 11. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222753752 French painter. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Giverney, to Félix Fénéon, 1918 A...

Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906

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French artist. From the description of Autograph letter (incomplete at end and lacking signature) : [Paris], to his parents, [1876 Sept. 10]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870505 ...

Utrillo, Maurice, 1883-1955

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French artist. From the description of Poème impromptu [poem] : autograph manuscript signed : Saint-Bernard, to George Kars, 1925 Nov. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875055 French painter. From the description of Letter, 1927 Dec. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145997106 From the description of Sonnet dedie a George et Nora Kars (poem), 1928 March 17. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82151809 ...

Rouault, Georges, 1871-1958

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French artist. From the description of Calling card of Georges Rouault signed by Isabelle Rouault : [postmark: Cannes], to John Rewald, [1955 Jan. 24]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873019 Georges Rouault was a French painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was also a book illustrator, made sets and costumes for Diaghilev's ballet The prodigal son, designed cartoons for stained glass and tapestries, and published texts and poems in various reviews. From the d...

Dufy, Raoul, 1877-1953

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The painter and engraver Raoul Dufy began designing fabrics in 1912 at the encouragement of his friend, the couturier Paul Poiret. Dufy designed fabrics for Bianchini-Férier until 1927-28. From the description of Dufy letters and sketch, 1926. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81840340 ...

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973

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Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...

Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891

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French artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [dated in another hand Paris], to [Félix] Fénéon, 1890 June 20]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872235 ...

Bignou Gallery

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Étienne Bignou (1891-1950) was a Parisian art dealer, noted for his paintings by artists such as Cézanne, Daumier, Corot, Degas, Renoir, Dérain, Picasso, Utrillo and Matisse. He opened his own gallery in 1927, and after Georges Petit's death, he purchased Petit's firm with dealers Gaston and Josse Bernheim-Jeune. Georges Keller was appointed director of the Galerie Georges Petit in 1929. After the gallery closed in 1933, Keller continued to work with Bignou at his Galerie Étienne Bignou and ...