Guillaume Édouard Marie Dubufe (16 May 1853,

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– 25 May 1909, at sea, near

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) was a French painter, decorator and illustrator.

Biography

His father

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was a painter and his mother Juliette Dubufe (the daughter of composer Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann) was a sculptor. His grandfather,

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, was also a painter and

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was his uncle. Sadly, his mother died while giving birth to his sister Hortense when he was only two. As might be expected, he received his first art lessons from his father, then pursued his studies at the

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under Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle. His first major commission involved decorating the ceiling of the foyer at the

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When not staying at their mansion in Paris, his family (he had five children) stayed at their villa in

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on the Isle of Capri, where he painted scenes of his home that would be exhibited in 1906 at the Georges Petit Gallery. From 1888 to 1890, he produced a series of paintings featuring the

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. During the 1890s, he decorated the ceilings of the Lobau Gallery at the Hôtel de Ville, the banquet hall at the

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Encyclopedia Americana (1903)
/ref> and the library at the Sorbonne. In 1896, he designed and produced the décor for the "Salon National des Beaux-Arts". Four years later, he was one of several artists who provided decorations for

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, a famous restaurant near the

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. From 1906 to 1909, he and Édouard Rosset-Granger decorated the Town Hall of

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. He also illustrated several works by the French dramatist

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. He died at sea. His friend, the sculptor

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provided the

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for his memorial at

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cemetery. In 1921, his mansion in Paris was acquired by Marie Henner, who turned it into a museum. It was donated to the French government in 1926, and is now known as the

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. His daughter , also became a painter. Eros et Psyche - Guillaume Dubufe

Writings

* ''La Valeur de l'Art'', in the series, "Bibliothèque de philosophie scientifique", éditions E. Flammarion, 1908.

References

External links

Arcadja Auctions: More works by Dubufe.
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Biography

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