Henri Guinier was a French artist born on 20 November 1867 in Paris. His parents were from Lorraine. His father was Simon Guinier. He died in October 1927 at Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Biography
Much due to his father's pressure, he joined the "École des Arts et Métiers" in Chalon-sur-Saône in 1883 as an engineering student, graduating in 1889 but then took courses at the Academie Julian and the École des beaux-arts in Paris, being attached to the studio of Benjamin Constant and Jules Lefebvre and threw himself into painting. In 1896 he was awarded second prize in the prix de Rome, followed by a gold medal at the Salon des artistes français in 1898. In that year he won a bursary which took him to Holland, Switzerland and Italy. He also won a silver medal at the great Paris 1900 "Exposition universelle".[1]
In 1904 he married Hélène Glaçon and they had a son Michel and a daughter Annette. Michael was an engineer and worked on the Paris Métro. Annette was one of his favourite models. Michael was also an expert on musical organs.
It was in Paris that Henri Guinier made the acquaintance of Fernand Legout-Gérard who introduced him to Concarneau where he purchased a villa called Kerdorlett at Beuzec-Conq, by the beach and facing west. This became his summer residence whilst winters were spent at his house in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He became the president of the "Union artistique des Amis de Concarneau" whose membership included painters such as Alfred Guillou and Thomas Alexander Harrison[2]
He was an excellent pastelist and colourist and painted many portraits, mostly of women. He painted landscapes especially involving the sea and mostly in the districts of Concarneau and the Pays Bigouden, as well as Faouët, at Vannes, at Paimpol and the Île de Bréhat.[3]
He painted many subjects: the allegorical, genre works, nudes, portraits and the countryside and spent time in Italy, Holland, the Alps and the Pyrénées.[4]
Henri Guinier received many public commissions including in 1909, with other artists, the decoration of the Neuilly-sur-Seine townhall for which he painted the compostition La Tapisserie.[5] The Ministry of War commissioned him to paint scenes from the battlefield at Verdun where he completed several pastels.
From 1920 onwards, he passed part of the winters in the mountains and painted scenes in both Pau and Argelès-Gazost as well as in the valley of the Chamonix.[6]
In 2007, the family gave their archives to the museum in Quimper- the "Musée départemental breton". In 2008, the museum of Faouët held a retrospective exhibition of his work.
Gallery
"Vue du Passage" Concarneau.
Works
"Figure dessinée d'après nature". École des beaux-arts de Paris[7]
"Petite fille aux champs". Painting dates to 1893. Held by Musée d'Amboise.
"Jésus pleuré par les Saintes Femmes'". Painting dates to 1895. Awarded second place in the "Prix de Rome" and held in the Musée de Joigny
"Des pèlerins découvrant la ville de Jérusalem depuis une hauteur se prosternent et prient". Painting dates to 1895., École des beaux-arts de Paris[8]
"L'automne". Painting dates to 1895. Held by Musée d'Orsay, Paris[9]
'"Psyché et l'amour". Work of 1897, Musée de Poitiers[10]
"'Un dimanche, enfants de Marie". Painted in 1898. palais des beaux-arts de Lille[11]
"Un dimanche, enfants de Marie". Palais des beaux-arts de Lille
"Chant du soir". Painting dated 1899. Musée national du Chili, Santiago
"Nuit douce". A print of 1899.[12]
"Plaisir d'été'". 1901. A lithograph[13]
"Le pardon de Sainte-Anne-d'Auray". Painting dates to 1902. Musée de Dijon
'"Ophélie". Painting dates to 1903. Musée des beaux-Arts, Reims
"Femme pensive". Painting dates to 1907), Musée de Mulhouse
"Femme à la coiffe rouge à fleurs". A pastel held by Musée du Faouët.
Henri Guinier's "Femme à la coiffe rouge à fleurs. A pastel. Musée du Faouët
'"Jeune tricoteuse au Faouët". Musée du Faouët
'"Vieille bretonne du Faouët". 1910. oil on canvas. Held by Musée du Faouët.
Henri Guinier's "Vieille bretonne du Le Faouët". 1910. Oil on canvas. Held at Musée du Faouët
"Portrait de sardinière". Painting dating to around 1914. Musée de la Pêche, Concarneau[14]
"Vieux paysan breton tenant son chapeau devant lui". A sketch in the Musée du Louvre, Paris[15]
"Jeune femme bretonne assise". A sketch held by Musée du Louvre, Paris[16]
"La prière en Bretagne". Painting dating to 1906[17]
"La fontaine miraculeuse, pardon des aveugles". Chapelle de La Clarté à Combrit in the Pays bigouden (1914), [[Musée de Quimper]]
"Portrait d'Ernest Marché". 1889 work held in the Château-musée de Nemours[18]
"Bretonne au chapelet". Painting dates to 1927. Held by Musée de Quimper
"Bigoudène au travail". An oil on canvas painting of 1926. Held in the Musée de Quimper.
Henri Guinier's "Paysanne de Concarneau". Painted around 1920 and held in the Musée de Quimper
Works shown at the Salon des artistes français
'"Au bord du lac". Salon des artistes français of 1908[19]
"La naïade Eglé". Salon des artistes français of 1909[20]
"Maternite". Salon des artistes français of 1913[21]
"Portrait du lieutenant-colonel Rimailho", Salon des artistes français of 1914[22]
"Le vieux terrien". Salon des artistes français of 1921[23]
"Coucher de soleil en Bretagne". Salon des artistes français of 1921[24]
La fontaine miraculeuse, pardon des aveugles, chapelle de La Clarté à Combrit, Pays Bigouden (1914), Musée départemental Breton de Quimper
Henri Guinier's "Le vieux terrien". Guinier's submission to the Paris Salon of 1921
Notes & references
"Le TĂŠlĂŠgramme - Concarneau - Galerie Gloux. Le grand Henri Guinier en petit format". Letelegramme.com. 2011-04-14. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
Thomas-Alexander Harrison (1853-1930) is an american painter who stayed frequently at Pont-Aven in the summer, then, from 1882 to 1883 at Concarneau.
Jean-Marc Michaud, Henri Guinier, éditions du Chasse-Marée, 2008 [ISBN 978-2-35357-052-2]
Charles Wittmann et Paul Chabas, À la mémoire de Henri Guinier, artiste peintre… Quelques œuvres et quelques dates. Discours prononcés sur la tombe de Henri Guinier, le 14, Imprimerie de Vaugirard, 1928, consultable https://books.google.com/books/about/%C3%80_la_m%C3%A9moire_de_Henri_Guinier_artiste.html?id=T4lCygAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palissy_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_98=AUTR&VALUE_98=%20Guinier%20Henri%20&DOM=Tous&REL_SPECIFIC=3
FRANCE. "Galerie d'art a Concarneau : peintures, sculptures, objets et petit mobilier". Galeriegloux-29.com. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
http://www.beauxartsparis.fr/ow2/catzarts/voir.xsp?id=00101-36311
http://www.beauxartsparis.fr/ow2/catzarts/voir.xsp?id=00101-17095
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/resultat-collection.html no_cache=1&zoom=1&tx_damzoom_pi1%5Bzoom%5D=0&tx_damzoom_pi1%5BxmlId%5D=080071&tx_damzoom_pi1%5Bback%5D=en%2Fcollections%2Findex-of-works%2Fresultat-collection.html%3Fno_cache%3D1%26zsz%3D9 et http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CPicZ.aspx?E=2C6NU0GG98GE
"Musée Sainte-Croix. Dossier pédagogique : La représentation de la femme en peinture". Anais.perrin.free.fr. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
"Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais". Photo.rmn.fr. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
"GUINIER : L'Estampe Moderne. Nuit douce. Lithographie Originale - Edition Originale". Edition-Originale.com. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
"Gravures anciennes | Lithographie de Nu Artistique - Nu Féminin - Érotisme - Plaisir d'Été (Henri Guinier)". French-engravings.com. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
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http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/joconde/0165/m503501_d0229682-000_p.jpg
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/joconde/0165/m503501_d0229681-000_p.jpg
Mémoires de la Somme Archives en ligne. "Archives photographiques de la Société Photographique et Cinématographique de Picardie (35FI) - 1235 - La prière en Bretagne par Guinier - Dt - 1906". Archives.somme.fr. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
"Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais". Photo.rmn.fr. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
"Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais". Photo.rmn.fr. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
"Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais". Photo.rmn.fr. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
"Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais". Photo.rmn.fr. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
"Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais". Photo.rmn.fr. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
"Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais". Photo.rmn.fr. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
"Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais". Photo.rmn.fr. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
Bibliography
Jean-Marc Michaud : Henri Guinier (1867 - 1927), 111 pages, éditions "Le Chasse-Marée", Glénat, 2008 [ISBN 9782353570522]
René Le Bihan : La route des peintres en Cornouaille, éditions Palantines, 2005
Henri Belbéoch : Les peintres de Concarneau, éditions Palantines, 1993
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