Félix Elie TOBEEN (1880-1938) - Lot 137

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Félix Elie TOBEEN (1880-1938) - Lot 137
Félix Elie TOBEEN (1880-1938) Family in the Basque Country Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. 62 x 43,5 cm PROVENANCE: former collection of Jean-Pierre Besnard. EXHIBITION : old label on the back, n° 244 and n° 164. Tobeen is not the name of an English or American artist, but that of a painter of Bordeaux origin, Felix Elie Bonnet, who decided to sign his works with the anagram of his name! A quite singular artist, he was largely forgotten until his reappearance in the spotlight following a retrospective exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux in 2012. Born into a family of artists and decorators in the historic center of Bordeaux, he discovered and practiced wood engraving in the family workshops. In his early years, he met many Bordeaux artists, including Georges de Sonneville, André Lhote and Odilon Redon. In 1907, Tobeen moved to Paris where he established himself in a studio at La Ruche in Montparnasse and then on avenue Trudaine at the bottom of Montmartre. He rubbed shoulders with Cubist artists, including Picasso, as well as those of the Cercle de Puteaux who founded the Salon de la Section d'Or in 1912 (Gleizes, Metzinger, Jacques Villon, Picabia, La Fresnaye...). His style developed, an original synthesis of Cézanne cubism and high, luminous colors treated in flat tints, stemming from his admiration for Paul Gauguin. He exhibited with the cubists at the Indépendants as well as at the Armory Show in New York and Boston in 1913. Tobeen is above all one of the emblematic painters of the Basque country, the place of his childhood vacations, which he visited regularly until the end of his life. He translates poetically in a modern writing the landscapes, the daily life as well as the cultural traditions (the Pelotaris) of Euskadi.
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