Artists
Henri Baptiste Lebasque
French, 1865 - 1937Born in
Of special influence on him were his peers, many whom were revolutionary young painters such as ´Edouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard and who were part of Les Nabis, a group of student artists who banded together at the Académie Julian and asserted that art was personal expression and not something done by outside prescription. Another group that influenced Lebasque were the “Intimists”, which also included Vuillard and Bonnard, and which espoused the depiction of cozy domestic genre scenes with jarringly modernist use of line and color.
Lebasque, along with his friend Henri Matisse became a founding member in 1903 of the Salon d’Automne, whose exhibiting artists became known as Les Fauves (wild beasts) for their brash use of color and savage presentation of shapes. Lebasque adopted their flatness of shape and color but was more fluid in presentation than many of them.
In 1924, Lebasque moved to the French Riviera to the town of