Marcel Cosson (1878-1956) | Painter of the Belle Époque

Jean Louis Marcel Cosson was a French🎨 Post-Impressionist and Modern painter who was born in Bordeaux, France. Cosson exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais where he won an honorable mention in 1901 and a third place medal🎨 in 1911.

He also showed his work at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and at the Salon des Tuileries.

Jules Grün (1868-1934) | Painter of the Belle Époque

Jules-Alexandre Grün was a French🎨 Post-impressionist painter, poster artist and illustrator.

He is called the last great artist of the Belle Époque.

Jules-Alexandre Grün was a student of the famous theater decorator of the Paris Opera, Jean-Baptiste Lavastre, and the landscape painter and long-time jury member of the Paris Salon, Antoine Guillemet.

Konstantin Gorbatov (1876-1945) | Romantic Landscape painter

Konstantin Ivanovich Gorbatov was a remarkable Russian🎨 landscape artist who infused his works with incredible elegance, serenity and poetical beauty.

Gorbatov's oeuvre currently may not be so well known to the general public, but art connoisseurs understand the value of his unique, sophisticated and vibrant artworks.

Walter Sickert (1860-1942) Post-Impressionist painter

Walter Richard Sickert🎨 was a British painter🎨 and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London.

He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the mid- and late 20th century.

Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects.

His work includes portraits of well-known personalities and images derived from press photographs. He is considered a prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism.

Moïse Kisling (1891-1953) | Modern painter

Moïse Kisling, born Mojżesz Kisling, was a Polish-born French painter🎨.

He moved to Paris in 1910 at the age of 19, and became a French citizen in 1915, after serving and being wounded with the French Foreign Legion in World War I.

He emigrated to the United States in 1940, after the fall of France, and returned there in 1946.

Born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków.

His teachers encouraged the young man to go to Paris, France, considered the international center for artistic creativity in the early 20th century.

Henri Matisse | Art Quotes

• "What I am after, above all, is expression".
• "Ciò che sto cercando, soprattutto, è l'espressione".
• "I have worked to enrich my intelligence and meet my mind’s various needs, striving with all of my being for an understanding of the different interpretations of art given by the ancient and modern masters".
• "Ho lavorato per arricchire la mia intelligenza, per soddisfare le differenti esigenze del mio spirito, sforzando tutto il mio essere alla comprensione delle diverse interpretazioni dell'arte plastica date dagli antichi maestri e dai moderni".

Georges Seurat (1859-1891) | Pointillist painter

Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French🎨 post-Impressionist artist. He is best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism as well as pointillism🎨.

While less famous than his paintings, his conté crayon drawings have also garnered a great deal of critical appreciation.

Seurat's artistic personality was compounded of qualities which are usually supposed to be opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind.

His large-scale work, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886)🎨, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.

Judy Drew, 1951 | Pastel painter

Judy Drew🎨 is an Australian painter. Her passion for the Post-Impressionism period and the influence of Japanese art in the late 1880's, along with her creative sense of colour and form, allow Judy to create beautiful and modern work, even though Judy's work is contemporary she retains a touch of sentiment in all her pieces.

Her rich and textured pastels convey her emotion and love for this medium creating refreshing and strong compositional work, which is sensitive to the subject matter.
Judy🎨'd love for figurative work and her sensitive portraits of the Bougainville people gained local and international attention whilst living and working on Bougainville Island in papua New Guinea from 1976-1984.