Georges TIRET-BOGNET
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| Artist: | Georges TIRET-BOGNET |
| Nationality: | French, 1855-1930 |
| Title: | Montmartre en
1880 |
| Medium: | Watercolour over pen and
ink with black chalk |
| Date: | 1880 |
| Inscription: | Signed and inscribed lower
right, 'Montmartre en 1880 ~ G Tiret–Bognet ~ La Maison
de Chaume d’Henri IV et de Gabrielle ~ La Maison de Berlioz’ |
| Image Size: | 31 x 70 cm (12 x 27½ in) |
| Framed Size: | 51 x 92 cm (20 x 36 in) |
| Provenance: | Private Collection, Oxfordshire |
| Additional Information: | Georges
Tiret-Bognet was a French artist and illustrator. He was born in
Saint-Servan-sur-Mer, near St Malo in Brittany, and studied fine
art in Paris. He is best known as the illustrator of the works
of Jules Verne. At the end of the 19thC, Montmartre was a thriving hillside community, the centre of artistic life in Paris, and a mecca for writers, poets, composers and artists alike. They lived an uninhibited bohemian lifestyle whilst enjoying the many risqué attractions that characterised the area. This painting shows the house where Hector Berlioz, the celebrated French Romantic composer and the greatest conductor of his era, lived from 1834-37 (and the Hunting Lodge of Henry IV behind) - with the artist depicted in the foreground. |
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| Price: | SOLD |
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