Andrée Lavieille (

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11 September 1887 – 14 May 1960

) was a French

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. Daughter and granddaughter of painters (her father, Adrien Lavieille, and her mother, Marie Adrien Lavieille, her grandfather on the father's side, Eugène Lavieille), Andrée Lavieille entered

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in 1908. Subjects of her paintings were

still life A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, human-m ...

s, interiors and especially landscapes. She painted at

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, then in Paris, where she and her husband, Paul Tuffrau, a man of letters, have successively inhabited, in

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in the little village of Plassac, and above all in

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, which immediately won her heart, particularly at Le Pouldu (1924–1939), and in the region of the

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and the baie des Trépassés (1937–1947). She realized

oil painting Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the Binder (material), binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or oil on coppe ...

s, but more and more was attracted by

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, more spontaneous for her. Nourished by the classicism of the

Chardin Chardin is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, (1699–1779), French painter noted for his still life works * Jean Chardin, (1643–1713), French jeweller and traveller, author of ''The Trave ...

of the still lifes, her painting evoke the

impressionists Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subjec ...

by its luminosity, and in some works the Fauves by the technique of flat tints, and the play of colours. Andrée Lavieille exhibited several times at

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, from 1911 to 1939.

References

This article contains a translation of Andrée Lavieille from :fr:Andrée Lavieille; see its history for attribution.

Bibliography

* Françoise Cambon, Henri Cambon. ''Dans le sillage des impressionnistes, Andrée Lavieille (1887–1960)''. Atlantica, 2007; Lelivredart, 2013. * Henri Cambon, Françoise Cambon, Christelle Bellec, Jacqueline Duroc, Jacques Juloux. ''Une femme peintre au Pouldu, Andrée Lavieille (1887–1960)''. Lelivredart, 2012. * Marie-Paule Piriou, Jean-Marc Michaud, Denise Delouche. ''Femmes artistes en Bretagne (1850–1950)''. Liv'Éditions, 2013.

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Presentation of the artist and of her works
1887 births 1960 deaths French landscape artists French still life painters 20th-century French painters 19th-century French women artists 20th-century French women painters {{France-painter-19thC-stub