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ROGER LIMOUSE (1894-1990) Le Paysage des Alpilles (c. 1930 Algeria)

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Oil on canvas

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81.00cm wide   54.00cm high (31.89 inches wide  21.26 inches high)

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Roger Limouse was born in Algeria, and after a brief career in civic administration in Tunis in 1919 he studied art under Laurens at the Academie Julian in Paris. It was at the Académie Julian, that he met and shared a studio with the painter Jules Cavaillès. After completing his tuition Limouse embarked on a period of travel.

He returned to North Africa during the 1930s, but then went to France where he joined Cavaillès, Roland Oudot, Maurice Brianchon, André Planson, Christian Caillard, Raymond Legeuelt, and Kostia Terechkovitch to form the Painters of Poetic Reality, la réalité poétique. This group was really an affiliation of friends and kindred spirits rather than a movement with a manifesto and he exhibited several works with them and took part in a major retrospective exhibition in 1956. He also exhibited at various Salons including des Artistes Francais, des Independants, d’Automne and des Tuileries.

His work was clearly influence by the Fauves and to a lesser extent the Cubists, but he was also revered as a painter of interiors. He was greatly influenced by Vuillard and Bonnard – one of the greatest painters of such scenes – who spoke of Limouse’s ‘heart, sensuality and intimacy.’

Because of his love of vibrant colour, Roger Limouse has been called the last Fauve.

The Museum of Modern Art, Paris has three paintings by Limouse in its permanent collection.