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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

The sad and beautiful story of Léon Bonvin

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According to the J. Paul Getty Museum's website, "Léon Bonvin (French, 1834-1866) was born in the Parisian suburb of Vaugirard and had artistic ambitions from an early age. 

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He was largely self-taught, though his older half-brother François, who had garnered recognition among Paris's realist painters, encouraged him and gave him supplies. 

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While earning his living as an innkeeper, Bonvin drew directly from nature, recording the fields and flowers near his home and interior views of the inn. 

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By the 1860s, he had turned exclusively to watercolor, creating landscapes and still lifes with remarkable luminosity. 

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François encouraged him to study the Dutch and Flemish masters' meticulous realism and use of outline. By outlining the forms in sepia-toned ink, Bonvin achieved distinctive, almost photographic effects in his watercolors.  

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After his marriage in 1861, Bonvin's financial situation worsened and his inn lost money. In January 1866 he traveled to Paris to try to sell his watercolors. 

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The day after an art dealer refused his work, the despairing artist hanged himself in the forest of Meudon. A posthumous sale of his watercolors raised over 8,000 francs to benefit his destitute family."
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Another Bio on The Blue Lantern
Another image at Lines and Colors


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