Andrée Lavieille was a French painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

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Daughter and grand-daughter of painters (her father, Adrien Lavieille

Adrien Lavieille

Adrien Lavieille was a French painter.Son of the landscape painter Eugène Lavieille, and nephew of the wood engraver Jacques Adrien Lavieille, he was a painter of the country : near Paris, in Brittany, near Cancale and on the riverside of the Vilaine in the south of Rennes, in Touraine, at...

, and her mother, Marie Adrien Lavieille

Marie Adrien Lavieille

Marie Adrien Lavieille , born Marie Petit, was a French painter. She was a pupil of her father, Jean-Jacques Petit, and of Joseph Blanc....

, her grandfather on the father's side, Eugène Lavieille

Eugène Lavieille

Eugène Lavieille was a French painter.-Biography:His father was a tapestry maker, and he was the younger brother of Jacques Adrien Lavieille , who will be a famous wood engraver. Eugène Lavieille began to work as a decorator painter...

), Andrée Lavieille entered École des Beaux-Arts in 1908. Subjects of her paintings were still life

Still life

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...

s, interiors and especially landscapes. She painted at Saint-Jean-de-Monts

Saint-Jean-de-Monts

Saint-Jean-de-Monts is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.-Geography:The town is situated in the west of the département, between Notre-Dame-de-Monts and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez. It is split in two by a long plantation of pine trees, stretching from...

 in Vendée

Vendée

The Vendée is a department in the Pays-de-la-Loire region in west central France, on the Atlantic Ocean. The name Vendée is taken from the Vendée river which runs through the south-eastern part of the department.-History:...

 beside Auguste Lepère, at Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located south-southeast of the centre of Paris. Fontainebleau is a sub-prefecture of the Seine-et-Marne department, and it is the seat of the arrondissement of Fontainebleau...

, Vendôme

Vendôme

Vendôme is a commune in the Centre region of France.-Administration:Vendôme is the capital of the arrondissement of Vendôme in the Loir-et-Cher department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. It has a tribunal of first instance.-Geography:...

, Chartres

Chartres

Chartres is a commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is located southwest of Paris.-Geography:Chartres is built on the left bank of the Eure River, on a hill crowned by its famous cathedral, the spires of which are a landmark in the surrounding country...

, then in Paris, where she and her husband, Paul Tuffrau, a man of letters, have successively inhabited, in Gironde

Gironde

For the Revolutionary party, see Girondists.Gironde is a common name for the Gironde estuary, where the mouths of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers merge, and for a department in the Aquitaine region situated in southwest France.-History:...

 in the little village of Plassac

Plassac, Gironde

Plassac is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:...

, and above all in Brittany

Brittany

Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

, which immediately won her heart, particularly at Le Pouldu

Clohars-Carnoët

Clohars-Carnoët is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.-Population:Inhabitants of Clohars-Carnoët are called in French Cloharsiens.-References:** ;-External links:*...

 (1924–1939), and in the region of the Pointe du Raz

Pointe du Raz

The Pointe du Raz is a promontory that extends into the Atlantic from western Brittany, in France. The local Breton name is Beg ar Raz. It is the western point of the commune of Plogoff, Finistère....

 and the baie des Trépassés (1937–1947).

She realized oil painting

Oil painting

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...

s, but more and more was attracted by watercolour, more spontaneous for her. Nourished by the classicism of the Chardin of the still lifes, her painting evoke the impressionists

Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...

 by its luminosity, and in some works the Fauves by the technique of flat tints, and the play of colours.

Andrée Lavieille exposed several times at Salon des Artistes Français, from 1911 to 1939.

External links

• Presentation of the artist and of her works