Paul Sérusier

Sérusier was born in Paris. He studied at the Académie Julian and was a monitor there in the mid-1880s.Arthur Wesley Dow, Joseph Masheck, Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers University of California Press, 1998. {{ISBN|0-520-20749-1}} In the summer of 1888 he travelled to Pont-Aven and joined the small group of artists centered there around Paul Gauguin.Bennard B Perlman: Robert Henri: His Life and Art, page 17. Courier Dover Publications, 1991. {{ISBN|0-486-26722-9}} While at the Pont-Aven artist's colony he painted a picture that became known as The Talisman, under the close supervision of Gauguin. The picture was an extreme exercise in Cloisonnism that approximated to pure abstraction.Harrison, Wood, Gaiger (editors): Art in Theory, 1815–1900 page 1020. Balckwell, 1998. {{ISBN|0-631-20066-5}}. He was a Post-Impressionist painter, a part of the group of painters called Les Nabis. Sérusier, along with Paul Gauguin, named the group. Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis became the best known of the group, but at the time they were somewhat peripheral to the core group.

In 1892 Sérusier met and befriended Charles Hodge Mackie while the Scottish artist and his wife were honeymooning in France. This friendship led to him contributing the illustration Pastorale Bretonne to The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal: The Book of Spring published by Patrick Geddes and Colleagues in Edinburgh in 1895.The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal: The Book of Spring, Patrick Geddes and Colleagues (1895)

He later taught at the Académie Ranson and published his book ABC de la peinture in 1921. He died at Morlaix in Brittany.

File:Odilon Redon, Paul Serusier, 1903, NGA 45843.jpg, Paul Serusier, 1903, lithograph. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958.8.197]]

• ABC de la peinture, La Douce France & Henri Floury, Paris 1921

: - Second edition, accompanied by a study on Sérusier's life and work, by Maurice Denis, Librairie Floury, Paris 1942

: - Third edition, accompanied by an unpublished correspondence, collected by Madame P. Sérusier and annotated by Mademoiselle H. Boutaric, Librairie Floury, Paris 1950

File:Paul Sérusier 001.jpg|Sérusier, 1888, Landscape and trees in Pont-Aven, or The Talisman, oil-painting

File:La barrière fleurie, Le Pouldu 1889 Paul Serusier.jpg|Sérusier, 1889, The flowered barrier, Le Pouldu in Pont-Aven, oil on cardboard

File:Porträt Paul Ranson.jpg|Sérusier, 1890, Portrait of Paul Ranson, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay

File:Paul Sérusier 002.jpg|Sérusier, 1890, Melancholy, oil on canvas

File:Le pardon de Notre-Dame-des-Portes à Châteauneuf-du-Faou vers 1894 Paul Sérusier.JPG|Sérusier, c. 1894, Le pardon de Notre-Dame-des-Portes à Châteauneuf-du-Faou, oil painting, Musée d'Orsay

File:Sérusier Les mangeurs de serpents.jpg|Sérusier, 1894, The snake eaters (Les mangeurs de serpents), tempera on canvas, National Museum, Warsaw

File:Serusier - boys on a river bank.jpg|Sérusier, 1906, Boys on a Riverbank, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Victoria

File:Paul Sérusier Autoportrait à la barbe rutilante.jpg|Sérusier, 1907–08, Self-portrait with a shiny beard (Autoportrait à la barbe rutilante), oil on canvas

File:Paysage 1912 Paul Serusier.jpg|Sérusier, 1912, Landscape, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay

File:Paul Sérusier La veuve de guerre.jpg|Sérusier, 1919, The War Widow (La veuve de Guerre), oil on canvas

References

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Sources

• Gauguin and the Nabis: Prophets of Modernism by Arthur Ellridge. Terrail, 1995.
• The Nabis: Bonnard, Vuillard and Their Circle by Claire Freches-Thory (Author), Antoine Terrasse (Author). Flammarion, 2003.
• The Nabis and the Parisian Avant-Garde by Patricia Eckert Boyer (Editor), Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Elizabeth Prelinger. Rutgers University Press, 1988.
• The Nabis and Their Period by Charles Chassé. Lund Humphries, 1969.
• The Nabis, Their History and Their Art, 1888–1896 by George Mauner. Garland Publishing, 1978.
• Frèches-Thory, Claire, & Perucchi-Petry, Ursula, ed.: Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne, Kunsthaus Zürich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993 {{ISBN|3-7913-1969-8}} (German), (French)

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• [http://www.abcgallery.com/S/serusier/serusier.html Sérusier at Olga's Gallery]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080720150859/http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Paul_Serusier/biography.html biography]
• [http://cdm16028.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/92353 Pierre Bonnard, the Graphic Art], an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Sérusier (see index)

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