Biography from Schiller & Bodo European Paintings:
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Roger Bissière
French, 1886-1964
By 1920, the artistic
battles that had marked the first decades of the twentieth century and
the swift rise to prominence of modernity had abated. The
cultural shock left by the First World War left artists, critics and
writers looking for means to reconnect with a more simple past and with
longstanding traditions. Artistic currents once recognized for
their departure from the "juste milieu' now sought to look back to a
more coherent mode of representation: this was the period of Picasso’s
bathers and the abstracted nude allegorical figures of Aristide
Maillol. It is in this atmosphere that Roger Bissière developed
his particular approach to Cubism. Abandoning the cubist approach
that sought to break and dissolve form, the new Cubism sought formal
simplicity and harmony based on a logical, classical order.
Bissiére was a regular participant in the Parisian exhibitions that
catered to modern trends. He exhibited at the Salon d’Automne
from 1919 to 1923. Although he began painting at a young age,
Bissiére himself considered 1919 the year of his true artistic
debut. It was around this time that he befriended André Lhote and
Georges Braque and, perhaps under their influence, embraced a Cubist
aesthetic. In 1920, Bissiére participated in the Salon de la
Jeune Peinture. This exhibition marked the new direction of the
Cubist movement. Highly interested in the intellectual and
theoretical aspects of Cubist painting and its ties to the French
tradition, Bissiére also published articles on Seurat, on Ingres, and
on Corot in the journal L’Esprit Nouveau.
Museums:
Bordeaux,
Musée des Beaux-Arts; Musée de Grenoble; The Hague, Gemeentemuseum;
Israel Museum, Jerusalem; London, Tate Gallery; New York, Museum of
Modern Art; Paris, Musée Nationale de l’Art Moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou; Zurich, Kunsthaus;
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Biography from Papillon Gallery:
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Roger Bissière was born on September 22, 1886 in Villeréal,
Lot-et-Garonne, France. He is best known as a painter of nudes and
portraits.
Bissière’s artistic talents were evident as a child,
but his father did not approve and wanted him to pursue a law
career. At nineteen Bissière rebelled, traveling in Algiers. He
eventually studied at L’École des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux and then at
L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. As part of
his artistic practice, Bissière wrote reviews of contemporary art for
Parisian newspapers. In 1919, Léonce Rosenberg commissioned him
to write the first monograph on Georges Braque’s work.
Around
1910 or 1911, Bissière began showing in the Parisian Salons. His
first Salon exhibition was the Salon des Artistes Français. Other
Salon exhibitions include the Salon d’Automne, Salon des Tuileries, and
Salon des Artistes Indépendants. In addition to these
exhibitions, Bissière exhibited work at the Société des Amateurs d’Art,
Exposition Universelle, Petit –Palais des Maîtres d’Art Indépendant
1895-1937, Salon de Mai, Biennale de Venise, Biennale de Sao Paulo, and
Documenta de Kassel.
Solo exhibitions include the Galerie Berthe
Weil, Galerie Druet, and Galerie Drouin. The Musée National d’Art
Moderne de Paris exhibited a retrospective of Bissière’s work.
The exhibition traveled to museums in Germany, The Netherlands, and
Switzerland. Subsequent exhibitions include Musée d’Art Moderne de la
Ville de Paris and Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables-d’Olonne.
Bissière’s
work is part of the permanent collections of numerous museums
including, Agen, Amsterdam, Bordeaux, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Saint-Étienne,
and Zurich. Paris art museums that own his work include the Musée
Nationale d’Art Moderne and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville.
Bissière died on December 2, 1964 in Boissiérettes, Lot, France. |
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