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Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula
Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was
an Andalusian-Spanishpainter, draughtsman,
and sculptor.
As one of the most recognized figures in twentieth-century art, he is best known for
co-founding the Cubistmovement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his
most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and
his depiction of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil
War, Guernica (1937) Biography Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José
Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima TrinidadClito, a series of names honouring various saints and relatives. Added to these
were Ruíz and Picasso, for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish
custom. Born in the city of Málaga in the
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André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 September
1954) was a French painter and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri
Matisse.
Biography
André Derain was born in 1880
in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1898,
while studying to be an engineer at the Académie Camillo, he attended painting
classes under Eugène Carrière, and there met Matisse.
In 1900, he met and shared a studio with Maurice de Vlaminck and began to paint his
first landscapes.
His studies were interrupted from 1901 to 1904 when he was conscriptedinto the French army. Following his release from service, Matisse persuaded
Derain's parents to allow him to abandon his engineering career and devote
himself solely to painting; subsequently Derain attended the Académie
Julian.Derain and Matisse worked together through the summer of 1905 in the Mediterraneanvillage of Collioureand later that year displayed their highly innovative paintings at the Salon
d'Automne. The vivid, unnatural colors led the critic Louis
Vauxcelles to derisively dub their works as les Fauves,
or "the wild beasts", marking the start of the Fauvist movement.
In March 1906, the noted art dealer Ambroise
Vollard sent Derain to London to compose a series of paintings with the
city as subject. In 30 paintings (29 of which are still extant), Derain put
forth a
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From humble beginnings, Paul Guillaume
(1891–1934) rose to become one of the leading cultural players and art
dealer-collectors of Paris in the early twentieth century. Guillaume
died at the age of forty-two, by which time he had amassed an
outstanding private collection of works by leading modernists. Unlike
many art collectors of the time, Guillaume did not come from a wealthy
and cultivated background, nor was he only interested in simply
supplying works of art for customer demand like other art dealers. He
also actively promoted certain aspects of the artistic and cultural
life of Paris, providing moral and material support to artists, and
interpreting the art of his time for his contemporaries. This approach,
while not uncommon today, was innovative at the time and had previously
been attempted by only a few courageous dealer-collectors in Paris,
such as Paul Durand-Ruel and Ambroise Vollard. Guillaume was celebrated
by the artists whom he supported; for instance in Modigliani's portrait
the words Novo Pilota, or ‘new helmsman’, identify the sitter as being
at the forefront of modern art.
Guillaume's
premature death prevented his dream – of transforming his private
collection to a museum of modern art – from being realised. After his
death Domenica, his widow and heir, remarried and modified the existing
collection, selling some of the more extreme avant-garde works (and
later his collection of African art and modern sculpture) and acquiring
works of a more conservative character. Domenica's concern to promote
harmony among the works in the Guillaume collection made her edited
version of the collection all the more typically a capsule of Parisian
taste in the 1920s. Before he died, Paul Guillaume had resolved to give
his collection to the Louvre. Domenica, a lover of
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Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller is a Swiss collector, born in Geneva in 1930. Biography
He has been under the influence of a passionnate father : poetry, philosophy,
musicor science (he got his PhD in biology at the age of 47).
After law studies in Geneva and London, he registers at the Bar and become
manager, at the age of 28, of a financial society. In 1960, he creates his own
society, the Private Society of Managment, specialized in the managment of the
housing stock and construction of social flats.
Collector as his father-in-law Josef Mueller, he goes in for « non-western »
arts. With his wife Monique, he creates in 1977 the Barbier-Mueller museum,
which organize more than seventy-five exhibitions, most of them attended with
importants catalogues, presenting the differents sections of the familial
collection, with the contribution of major european, american and asian
museums. He carries out or finances researches in Sumatra, in Ivory Coast and
Guinea. He’s one of the best expert of the Batak ethnic group, in the north of
Sumatra. In may 1997, the Barbier-Mueller precolombian art museum opens
opposite to the Picasso museum, in Barcelona. The town council offers a
long-time loan from the Nadal Palace to expose around 400 works of art from
Pre-Hispanic America. Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller is also a recognized specialist of the poetry and the
french history of the 16th century. Bibliophile since the age of 13, he has gathered
one of the most full library devoted to Ronsard and other authors of the Pléiade.
Entitled « Ma Bibliothèque poétique », the catalogue of this collection
count 7 volumes already published. Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller has also written
many articles for journals such as « Bibliothèque d’humanisme »,
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley , GCB,
born John Rowlands (January 28, 1841 – May 10, 1904), was a Britishjournalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his
search for David Livingstone. Stanley is often remembered
for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr.
Livingstone, I presume?", although there is some question as to
authenticity of this now famous greeting. Biography
Stanley was born in Denbigh, Wales. At the time, his mother, Elizabeth Parry, was nineteen years
old. According to Stanley himself, his father, John Rowlands, was an alcoholic;
there is some doubt as to his true parentage. His parents were unmarried, so his
birth certificate refers to him as a bastard, and the
stigma of illegitimacy weighed heavily upon him all his life. He
was raised by his grandfather until the age of five. When his guardian died,
Stanley stayed at first with cousins and nieces for a short time, but was
eventually sent to St. Asaph Union Workhouse for
the poor, where overcrowding and lack of supervision resulted in frequent abuse
by the older boys. When he was ten, his mother and two siblings stayed for a
short while in this workhouse, without Stanley realizing who they were. He stayed
until the age of 15. After completing an elementary education, he was employed
as a pupil teacher in a National School. In 1859, at the age of 18, he made
his passage to the United States in search of a new life. Upon arriving
in New Orleans, he absconded from his boat.
According to his own declarations, he became friendly with a wealthy trader
named Stanley, by accident: he saw Stanley sitting on a chair outside his store
and asked him if he had any job opening for a person such as himself. However,
he did so in the British style, "Do you want a boy, sir?" As it
happened, the childless man had indeed
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Jean Rouch (31 May1917 - 18 February2004) was a French filmmaker
and anthropologist. He began his long association with African subjects in
1941 after working as civil engineer supervising a construction project in Niger. However,
shortly afterwards he returned to France to participate in the Resistance.
After the war, he did a brief stint as a journalist with Agence France-Presse before returning to
Africa where he become an influential anthropologist and sometimes
controversial filmmaker. He is considered as one the pioneers of Nouvelle
Vague, of visual anthropology and the father of ethnofiction.
Rouch's films mostly belonged to the cinéma vérité school – a term that Edgar Morinused in a 1960 France-Observateur article referring to Dziga
Vertov's Kinopravda. His best known film, one of the central works of the
Nouvelle Vague, is Chronique d'un été (1961) which he filmed
with sociologist Edgar Morin and in which he portrays the social life of
contemporary France. Throughout his career, he used his camera to report on
life in Africa.
Over the course of five decades, he made almost 120 films. He died in an automobile accident in February
2004, some 16
kilometres from the town of Birnin N'Konni in central Niger. Main films- 1954: Les Maîtres Fous (The Mad
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Germaine
Dieterlen (1903-1999) was a French anthropologist.
She was a student of Marcel Mauss and wrote on a large range of ethnographictopics and made pioneering contributions to the study of myths, initiations,
techniques (particularly "descriptive ethnography"),
graphic systems, objects, classifications, ritual and social
structure. She is most noted for her work among the Dogon and the Bambaraof Mali, having
lived with them for over twenty years, often in collaboration with noted French
anthropologist Marcel Griaule (1898-1956). Themes
Some of the main themes in her work concentrate
on the notions of sacred kingship, the position of the first born, relationships between
maternal uncles and nephews, division
of labor, marriage,
and the status of the rainmaker in Dogon society. Because each episode of the
rite is enacted only once every sixty years, Dieterlen's documentation of the sigui cycle allowed the Dogon
themselves to see and interpret the entire sequence of rites which they had
heretofore only observed in part. Researches
Dieterlen began her ethnographic research in Bandiagara,
Mali in 1941. Perhaps most controversially, Dieterlen was criticized by her
peers for her publications with Griaule on Dogon astronomy,
which professed an ancient knowledge of the existence of a dwarf white star,Sirius Balso called the Dog
Star, invisible to the naked eye. This ancient
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Julien Michel
Leiris (April
20, 1901 in Paris – September
30, 1990 in
Saint-Hilaire, Essonne)
was a Frenchsurrealistwriter and ethnographer. BiographyMichel Leiris obtained his baccalauréat in
philosophy in 1918 and after a brief attempt at studying chemistry, he
developed a strong interest in jazz and poetry. Between 1921 and 1924, Leiris
met a number of important figures such as Max Jacob, Georges Henri Rivière, Jean
Dubuffet, Robert Despos, Georges
Bataille and the artist André
Masson, who soon became his mentor. Through Masson, Leiris became a member
of the Surrealistmovement, contributed to La Révolution surréaliste, published Simulacre(1925), and Le Point Cardinal (1927), and wrote a surrealist novel Aurora(1927-28; first published in 1946). In 1926, he married Louise Godon, the
step-daughter of Picasso's dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and traveled to
Egypt and Greece. Following a fall out with André
Breton in 1929, he joined Bataille’s team as a sub-editor for Documents, to which he also regularly
contributed articles such as “Notes on Two Microcosmic Figures of the 14th and
15th Centuries” (1929, issue 1), “In Connection with the ‘Musée des
Sorciers" (1929, issue 2), "Civilisation" (1929, issue 4), “The
‘Caput Mortuum’ or the Alchemist’s Wife” (1930, issue 8), and on artists such
as Giacometti,Miró, Picasso, and the
16th
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Marcel Griaule (Aisy-sur-Armançon, Yonne, 1898 - Paris, 1956) is a french ethnologist. After having passed several months in Abyssinia (1928 - 1929), he organised the crossing of Africa from west to east: it's the Dakar-Djibouti mission from
1931 to 1933 with Michel Leiris, André Schaeffner and other ethnologists, marking in the same time the start of the field ethnology. During this expedition, he studied the Dogon group, on which he consacred the majority of his researches.
Very linked to the dogon culture, he contributed to the development of the region by promoting the construction of an irrigation boom for the culture of onion and pepper in the region of Sangha.
One of his main contribution (related to ethnology) is having proved that the dogon cosmogony is at least as important as the western ones. However, he'll be very criticized for having under-estimate the western influence in the dogon astronomical knowledge. He has been one of the rare ethnologists to get traditional african funerals.
In 1941, he stood in for his former amharique professor Marcel Cohen, unauthorised to teach because of the anti-Semitic laws, at the INLCOV (School of the Eastern Languages). From 1943 to his death, he's professor at la Sorbonne (first chair of ethnology). He's also advisor of the French Union. From 1940, he was the general secretary of the Africanists Society.
He has
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Armand Auxiètre always bathed in the world of the collection.His
grandfather and his father before him constituted, according to time
and discoveries, a collection of many and various objects, ancient books and objects coming from all parts of Africa.During his youth, Armand evolves in a particular world, where he educates his look naturally.Having
crossed several certificates of cabinetmaking, he crosses successfully
his certificate of the jobs of art to the Ecole Boulle, and develops
at the same time his knowledge in african art.The attraction between the african sculpture and Armand Auxiètre is first plastic, immediate, obvious.A love was born, which will be developed in the course of meetings, discoveries and of readings.Soon
the pleasure of being encircled with items becoming too big to resist
the desire to share this passion, Armand takes back the ancient
bookshop of his grandmother, and perpetuates the family presence
initiated in the fifties in 41, street of Verneuil, by creating the
gallery "L'Oeil et la
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In 1950s, it was possible to find many objects at the price of 10 francs on the flea markets of Europe. The
first objects to take value were those of the Benin because they were
bronze, then came the fashion of objects to black patina of Ivory
Coast, and those of Bakota of the Gabon plated by copper and by brass. The
big statues were worth more expensive than the babies, while most often
in Africa, if they are small it is to be able to hide them more easily
because they have a particular importance. In 1983, a Parisian trader, Jean-Michel Huguenin, makes discover seats Sénoufo. In
1985, another Parisian trader, Réginald Groux, discovers the ladders of
lofts Dogon — coming from the cliff of Bandiagara — and Lobi in the
region of Mopti (Mali).He acquires a first lot of fifty, makes them socler and sells them in his gallery by making a pretty benefit.
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The art gallery L'Oeil et
la Main, located in Paris, is essentially devoted to the primitive arts. To come at the gallery, an access map is available. If you wish to receive informations about the coming exhibitions, please leave us your email adress in the category subscription to the newsletter.
Opening hours of the gallery:
From Wednesday to Saturday
2pm - 7pm
To visualize a panorama of the gallery, click here.
For any information about a work of art : Tel. : +33 (0)1 42 61 54 10
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