Lebanese, 20th century, male.
Active also active in France.
Painter. Figures, landscapes, seascapes, still-lifes.
Maurice Bonfils’ Post-Impressionist landscapes are often a nostalgic throwback to his time in Lebanon. At times, not least in his still-lifes, there is the merest suggestion of Cubist geometricisation. He shows his work at group exhibitions in Lebanon and in France, including the Paris Salon d’Automne (...
French painter and designer. He began his career painting the Algerian scenes of his youth, rendering Orientalist subjects—such as markets and musicians—with a distinctive, unaffected precision. In 1888 he went to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Auguste Herst (b 1825...
Armenian painter and museum director. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1897 to 1903 and then worked in the studios of Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin. He was a member of the Moscow Symbolist group around Pavel Kuznetsov who participated in the ...
Turkish, 20th century, male.
Born 1897; died 1980.
Painter. Portraits, landscapes.
Esref Üren is probably the same person as Esbref Üren. He presented some Post-Impressionist portraits and landscapes at Turkish Art ( L’Art Turc) at the Musée Cernuschi, Paris, in 1946.
