Tobeen (July 20, 1880 – 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, 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
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Tobeen's paintings, drawings and woodcarvings show the traces of his Parisian period and his passion for the poetry in human life, but he was not a city-dweller. He loved a life of liberty, the sea, the woods. After 1920 he settled in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, where he died in 1938.
Exhibitions
* Salon de la Section d'Or, Galerie La Boétie (Paris), 1912
* Armory Show
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(New York
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), 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 in ...
, Mánes Pavilion, (S.V.U. Manes), Prague, 1914
* Tobeen, un poète du cubisme: Bordeaux, Galerie Musée des Beaux Arts, June 8 – September 16, 2012
Museum collections
The Netherlands
* Centraal Museum
The Centraal Museum is the main museum in Utrecht (city), 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 Wte ...
, Utrecht
* Kröller-Müller Museum
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, Otterlo
* In former times Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, Spanbroek
France
* , Bayonne
* Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux, 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
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19th-century French painters
French male painters
20th-century French painters
Cubism
1880 births
1938 deaths
19th-century French male artists