Charles Picart-Le-Doux
XIV arrondissement di Parigi, 1881 - 1959
A painter in the Ecole de Paris group, he received the Grand Médaille at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937.
He began painting at the Académie Julian to move in 1900 to Marcel-André Baschet's Atelier and later to Jean-Léon Gérôme's Ecole des Beaux Arts. Renoir's friendship frees him from academicism, and Impressionism influences the landscapes that, beginning in 1903, he sends to the Salon.
He is present at the Salons de la Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Salon d'Automne, and the Salon des Tuileries.
His temperament asserts itself with rich and sensual subject matter. A stay in Tunis in 1914 gave his works greater luminosity. After the war, during which he made numerous drawings, he painted light landscapes in the Ile-de-France, Turenna, and Provence, as well as interiors and flowers.
A painter in the Ecole de Paris group, he received the Grand Médaille at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937. He carried out teaching activities at a free academy in Montparnasse. In 1950 he is appointed an officer of the Legion of Honor. In addition to paintings, he executed several wall decorations: the ceilings for the steamship Normandie; the refectory of the Lycée de Vincennes; the prefecture d'Indre-et-Loire in Issoudun; and the City Hall of the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
He has illustrated numerous literary works, they include: Romances sans paroles by Paul Verlaine, Un document sur l'impuissance d'aimer by Jean Tinan; Histoire de Douce Amie by J.C. Mardrus; La Chambre éclairée by Colette; Pièces condamnées by Baudelaire; Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde by Maeterlinck; Le Prince Jaffar by Georges Duhamel; Kir Nicolas by Panait Istrati; Livre d'Amour by Charles Vildrac.
Museums where his works are kept:
Aix-en-Provence
Algiers
Bagnols-sur-Cèze
Belfort
Le Havre
Moscow (Museum of Modern European Painting)
Nice
Paris (Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Musée du Petit Palais, Musée de la Ville de Paris)
Tunis
Bibliography:
G. Schurr, P. Cabanne, Dictionnaire des Petits Maitres de la peinture, 1820-1920, Paris, Les éditions de l’amateur, 1996; Dictionnaire des Peintres à Montmartre, Paris, Ed. André Roussard, 1999.
© Charles Picart-Le-Doux, by SIAE 2023
He is present at the Salons de la Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Salon d'Automne, and the Salon des Tuileries.
His temperament asserts itself with rich and sensual subject matter. A stay in Tunis in 1914 gave his works greater luminosity. After the war, during which he made numerous drawings, he painted light landscapes in the Ile-de-France, Turenna, and Provence, as well as interiors and flowers.
A painter in the Ecole de Paris group, he received the Grand Médaille at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937. He carried out teaching activities at a free academy in Montparnasse. In 1950 he is appointed an officer of the Legion of Honor. In addition to paintings, he executed several wall decorations: the ceilings for the steamship Normandie; the refectory of the Lycée de Vincennes; the prefecture d'Indre-et-Loire in Issoudun; and the City Hall of the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
He has illustrated numerous literary works, they include: Romances sans paroles by Paul Verlaine, Un document sur l'impuissance d'aimer by Jean Tinan; Histoire de Douce Amie by J.C. Mardrus; La Chambre éclairée by Colette; Pièces condamnées by Baudelaire; Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde by Maeterlinck; Le Prince Jaffar by Georges Duhamel; Kir Nicolas by Panait Istrati; Livre d'Amour by Charles Vildrac.
Museums where his works are kept:
Aix-en-Provence
Algiers
Bagnols-sur-Cèze
Belfort
Le Havre
Moscow (Museum of Modern European Painting)
Nice
Paris (Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Musée du Petit Palais, Musée de la Ville de Paris)
Tunis
Bibliography:
G. Schurr, P. Cabanne, Dictionnaire des Petits Maitres de la peinture, 1820-1920, Paris, Les éditions de l’amateur, 1996; Dictionnaire des Peintres à Montmartre, Paris, Ed. André Roussard, 1999.
© Charles Picart-Le-Doux, by SIAE 2023
