French, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 24 February 1925, in Kindia, French West Africa;
died 17 June 2016, in Princeton (New Jersey).
Painter, watercolourist, sculptor. Figures, landscapes, still-lifes, animals. Murals, portraits.
Jean Lareuse was a prolific artist, whose career spanned seven decades. He was born to Catalan parents in French West Africa and was raised in the south of France. In 1931 his mother, Françoise Casso, died of tuberculosis. As a result, Jean was boarded at the private school Jean Louis de Gonzague in Perpignan and his older sister, Andrée, was sent to a convent school. Jean and Andrée’s father remarried in 1931, and the family moved to Prats de Molló. In Prats de Molló the family experienced hardship including food shortages as a result of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and flooding due to record-breaking torrential rains (1940), which washed away the Lareuse home and all their belongings....
