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Puigaudeau
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Ferdinand Loyen du Puigaudeau was born on April 4, 1864, in Nantes, France. Following a traditional boarding school education, Puigaudeau began to paint in the early 1880s, but only formed and honed his style following his travels to Italy and Tunisia in 1882.
In 1886, the date of his earliest known work, Puigaudeau moved to Pont Aven, a small village in Breton that was a popular destination for aspiring artists. There, he met Charles...
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Ferdinand Loyen du Puigaudeau was born on April 4, 1864, in Nantes, France. Following a traditional boarding school education, Puigaudeau began to paint in the early 1880s, but only formed and honed his style following his travels to Italy and Tunisia in 1882.
In 1886, the date of his earliest known work, Puigaudeau moved to Pont Aven, a small village in Breton that was a popular destination for aspiring artists. There, he met Charles Laval and Paul Gauguin, with whom he struck a lasting friendship. A year later, Puigaudeau was supposed to accompany Gauguin on his trip to Panama and Martinique in the South Seas, but he was unable to go due to his enlistment and military service.
In 1889, the artist visited Belgium, where he met and associated with some of the members of the Groupe des XX including Ensor, Toorop, Vogels and Meunier. A year later, he presented a selection of his work at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. It was during this period that the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who he met through his father, was his main patron.
Following this, Puigaudeau moved back to Pont Aven for three years, where he spent most of his time with the American painters L. Birge Harrison and Childe Hassam, who had come to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. The roundabouts and country fairs of Pont Aven fascinated him, and figure as subjects in several of his paintings from the period.
In 1897, Edgar Degas bought one of Puigaudeau’s paintings at Durand-Ruel’s gallery, and went on to become one the artist’s dealers and good friends. After his move to Sannois, a town near Paris, at the turn of the century, Puigaudeau held his first exhibition at the Galerie des Artistes Modernes in Paris in 1903. A year later, after breaking off his relationship with Durand-Ruel, the artist travelled to Venice, a city which became the subject of several subsequent paintings.
Following a period of financial hardship and several moves, in 1907, Puigaudeau finally settled into the manor Kervaudu on the Le Croisic peninsula, where he held meetings and salons with various artists and intellectuals. In 1913, the artist helped establish an artist group at the harbour town, Saint-Nazaire.
The artist spent the next four years preparing for an exhibition in New York in 1919, proposed by an industrialist from Nantes. However, this show was cancelled close to the opening day, and Puigaudeau suffered severely from the repercussions of this event, and went through periods of alcoholism and depression. In 1924, Puigaudeau prepared illustrations for the novel ‘La Brière’ and others written by his relative Alphonse de Chateaubriant, but unfortunately these projects did not bear fruit either.
Puigaudeau died on September 19, 1930, in Le Croisic.
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Born
April 04, 1864
Nantes
Died
September 19, 1930
Croisic
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