Tobeen (Bordeaux, July 20, 1880 - Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, March 1938) is the pseudonym of the French artist Félix Bonnet.

Life

Tobeen stayed frequently in the western part of thé Pyrenees, Basque Country, but was born and bred in Bordeaux. Because of his frequent reference to Basque subjects within his paintings he became known as a Basque artist. However, he was not a Basque and neither were his parents. From 1910 he worked in Paris where he maintained relations with the group of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and with the group of the Duchamp brothers (Gaston, Raymond and Marcel) in Puteaux. He exhibited eleven works at the Salon de la

Section d'Or The Section d'Or ("Golden Section"), also known as Groupe de Puteaux or Puteaux Group, was a collective of Painting, painters, sculptors, poets and critics associated with Cubism and Orphism (art), Orphism. Based in the Parisian suburbs, the grou ...

, Galerie La Boétie, Paris, October 1912.Exhibit catalog for Salon de "La Section d'Or", 1912, pp. 12-13, nos. 140-150, no. 116. Walter Pach papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
/ref> But Tobeen was not a city-dweller. He loved a life of liberty, the sea, the woods and after 1920 he settled in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme. Tobeen's paintings, drawings and woodcarvings show the traces of his Parisian period and his passion for the poetry in human life.

Exhibitions

* Salon de la

, Galerie La Boétie (Paris), 1912 *

Armory Show The 1913 Armory Show, also known as the International Exhibition of Modern Art, was a show organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors in 1913. It was the first large exhibition of modern art in America, as well as one of ...

( New York), 1913 *

Mánes Union of Fine Arts The Mánes Association of Fine Artists ( or ''S.V.U.''; commonly abbreviated as ''Manes'') was an artists' association and exhibition society founded in 1887 in Prague and named after painter Josef Mánes. The Manes was significant for its inte ...

, Mánes Pavilion, (S.V.U. Manes), Prague, 1914 * Tobeen, un poète du cubisme: Bordeaux, Galerie Musée des Beaux Arts, 2012 June 8 - September 16

Museum collections

The Netherlands *

Centraal Museum The Centraal Museum is the main museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, founded in 1838. The museum has a wide-ranging collection, mainly of works produced locally. The collection of the paintings by the Northern Mannerist Joachim Wtewael is by a lon ...

, Utrecht *

Kröller-Müller Museum The Kröller-Müller Museum () is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the Netherlands. The museum, founded by art collector Helene Kröller-Müller within the extensive grounds of ...

, Otterlo * In former times

Scheringa Museum of Realist Art Scheringa Museum of Realist Art (until 2005, Frisia Museum) was a museum in Spanbroek, North Holland, the Netherlands that housed around five hundred works of the 20th-century art mainly realist art and contemporary. It opened in February 1997 and ...

, Spanbroek France * , Bayonne *

Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine arts museum of the city of Bordeaux, France. The museum is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux. Its collections include paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 15t ...

, Bordeaux * Musées Menton, collection Wakefield, Menton * Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Nancy

References

3.''Tobeen, un moderne chez les Basques'', biography by Goikoetxea Jean Paul, ed. Pimientos, 2012.

External links

Tobeen.org

Inscription au catalogue raisonné Tobeen Richard/Goiko
* tobeen-biographie-alarme : https://sites.google.com/site/tobeenbiographie/ rchive {{Authority control (arts) 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters Cubism 1880 births 1938 deaths 19th-century French male artists