Artistde Waroquier

Artist Years1881-1970

Artist NationalityFrench

TitleLeda and the Swan

Yearca. 1945

MediumPrint > Drypoint

DimensionsPlate: 15.6 X 12.6 inches
Sheet: 22 X 15.5 inches

NotesHenry de Waroquier frequented in his childhood the Durand-Ruel, Bing and Vollard galleries which were located near the family home on rue Laffitte. Long studies at the National Museum of Natural History made him consider a career as a biologist, becoming an authentic specialist in mineralogy and paleontology and "admitting to being very fond of the mineral", he studied architecture under Charles Genuys at the School of Decorative Arts, and lessons from the Hellenist Louis Ménard who deepened his knowledge of mythology.

Henry de Waroquier begins with an imaginative pictorial work. He was then professor of decorative composition at the École Estienne in Paris and professor of painting at workshop A of the Scandinavian Academy.

Waroquier painted especially Brittany ( Belle-Île-en-Mer , the Gulf of Morbihan , Île-aux-Moines , the banks of the Trieux ) from 1900 to 1910, in a style approaching the cloisonnism of the Nabis, then he moved to his studio in Montparnasse working with Modigliani at the École de Paris.

The trip he made to Italy in 1912 marked the beginning of his white period, linked to his discovery of the frescoes of the Italian prer-enaissance, against which he reacted in 1917 by painting, in very counter-tones, dark, imaginary landscapes. A second trip to Italy in 1920, Corsica, Chamonix, Entrevaux and Saint-Tropez between 1914 and 1921, and Spain in 1921, northern France and Belgium followed around 1933, which led him to paint the landscape on nature and the human figure. In 1926 the Société Belfortaine des Beaux-Arts was created which organized each year, until the Second World War, important exhibitions in the museums of Belfort in which Henry de Waroquier participated in the company of Georges Fréset, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Jean-Eugène Bersier, Raymond Legueult, Anders Osterlind, René-Xavier Prinet, and Jules-Émile Zingg. He participated in the 1938 Tuileries Salon on the theme of Spain.

Waroquier was also a sculptor (from 1930), engraver (from 1936) and fresco artist. In 1937 he produced a wall composition for the Palais de Chaillot, La Tragédie. He also produced tapestries for the National School of Decorative Art in Aubusson. He was also a photographer and poet: he wrote The Last Judgment "a monumental work in ten volumes that he had started in 1908, which will be completed only in 1967, and is still unpublished". He was a friend of Paul Claudel who devotes a critical text to him, Georges Duhamel, and Gaston Bachelard who devoted an article to him in Le Droit de rêve.

De Waroquier died on December 31, 1970 and is buried at Père Lachaise.
(source: wikipedia.org)

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