Jean Marchand (painter)

Summary

Jean Hippolyte Marchand (21 November 1883 – 1940[1]) was a French cubist painter, printmaker and illustrator with an association with figures of the Bloomsbury Group.

Jean-Hippolyte Marchand
Self-portrait
Born(1883-11-21)21 November 1883
Paris, France
Died1940 (aged 56–57)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Known forPainter
MovementPost-Impressionism, Cubism

Biography edit

Marchand was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Léon Bonnat from 1902 through 1906. In 1910 his painting Still Life with Bananas was exhibited in the 1910 Manet and Post-Impressionism show organized by Roger Fry and then in a second show in 1912 organized by Fry with Clive Bell, both at the Grafton Galleries in London. This led to a kind of adoption of Marchand by the Bloomsbury circle, and his work was bought by the important British collector Samuel Courtauld.

The painter exhibited at the Salon d'Automne,[2] the Salon des Indépendants[3] and the Section d'Or.[4] Marchand also produced woodcut illustrations for Paul Claudel's book, Le Chemin de la Croix, and for Paul Valery's Le Serpent in 1927.

He was married to painter and printmaker Sonia Lewitska (1880-1937).[5]

Paintings edit

Illustrations edit

  • Jean Cocteau, Bertrand Guégan (1892-1943); L'almanach de Cocagne pour l'an 1920-1922, Dédié aux vrais Gourmands Et aux Francs Buveurs[6]

References edit

  1. ^ French National Library
  2. ^ Le Petit Parisien; 1940; 'Les Salons de 1940'; BNF bnf.fr
  3. ^ Société des artistes indépendants : catalogue de la 24me exposition, 1908; p.271 (275) (no. 4020-4025) libmma.contentdm.oclc.org; 1910, no.3465-3470, Gallica BnF
  4. ^ L'Art et les artistes: revue mensuelle d'art ancien et moderne; BNF bnf.fr
  5. ^ Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 / Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes. p.298, Sonia Lewitska; birth date 1880; Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 1937/09/24 (Numéro 264), p,2, death date Sonia Lewitska - 1937/09/20; Gallica BnF
  6. ^ Notice WorldCat; sudoc; BnF. Engraved on wood and unpublished drawings of: Matisse, J. Marchand, R. Dufy, Sonia Lewitska, de Segonzac, Jean Émile Laboureur, Friesz, Marquet, Pierre Laprade, Signac, Louis Latapie, Suzanne Valadon, Henriette Tirman and others.´

External links edit

  • online images of Marchand's work, invaluable.com, artnet.com (2), invaluable.com (2)
  • La Section d’Or; Salon de 1912 sectiondor.wordpress.com
  • Jean Marchand - Autoportrait 1912 - Martin du Louvre . Paris