DOI Heft:
No. 224 (November 1911)
DOI Artikel:Some recent drawings by Geo. Dupuis
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0145
Geo. Duftuis
SOME RECENT DRAWINGS BY futue attendance at the Ecole des Arts decoratifs,
GEO DUPUIS entirely self-taught, M. Dupuis follows his own
inspiration, and in order to establish himself as
In an article which appeared in this the sole arbiter of his own artistic future he prefers
magazine exactly ten years ago, M. Gabriel Mourey to live away from Paris. For months together he
reviewed the career and achievements of Georges lives in some secluded village in France or abroad,
Dupuis, who, though at that time only twenty- or at his birthplace, Havre, seeing no one and
seven, had, after experiencing a full share of those working steadily at the illustration of some book
trials and hardships which so often fall to the lot with which he is in sympathy, such as " Un Male "
of the artist who strikes out a path of his own, by Camille Lemonnier, " Florise Bonheur" by
just begun to make a name for himself as an Adolphe Brisson, "Pierre et Jean" by Guy de
illustrator of books. In the meantime M. Dupuis Maupassant, or " Le Jardin de Berenice " by
has not ceased to reveal himself as the fresh and Maurice Barres. The French magazine " Je sais
independent artist he gave promise of developing tout" numbers him among its contributors, and
into from the very first. Those who compare for this publication he has executed some remark-
his earlier drawings with the more recent ones able illustrations which are much appreciated,
reproduced here will perceive that his later work For some years past his talent as a painter has
has gained considerably in that assurance and been undergoing a transformation, and on the
freedom which can only come with continuous rare occasions when he has consented to exhibit
self-discipline and observation. his work outside the official salons, Georges
The pupil of no one and, save for a brief and Dupuis has shown himself to be a colourist of
power—one is tempted to
say almost of violence, but
that might even give an im-
pression of exaggeration to
such as are not aware of this
artist's conscientious and
unceasing efforts to attain
perfection. Shunning society,
fleeing from artistic coteries,
and indifferent to official
salons and art dealers, this
artist pushes his conscien-
tiousness to such lengths that
he will re-draw a subject often
as many as ten times in order
to get the exact values, and
destroys almost all his work
under the pretext, rare
enough nowadays, but with
him absolutely sincere, that
it is not worthy of being ex-
hibited. Georges Dupuis is
undoubtedly one of the most
singular among artists of the
present day, for it is rare to find
an artist of his calibre content
to live such a modest and re-
tiring life, and even to suffer
straitened circumstances, in
order that he may remain him-
self the sole judge of what he
will submit to the delibera-
'i.a fille de salle A la salpetriere" by ceo. dupuis tions of the art critics.
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SOME RECENT DRAWINGS BY futue attendance at the Ecole des Arts decoratifs,
GEO DUPUIS entirely self-taught, M. Dupuis follows his own
inspiration, and in order to establish himself as
In an article which appeared in this the sole arbiter of his own artistic future he prefers
magazine exactly ten years ago, M. Gabriel Mourey to live away from Paris. For months together he
reviewed the career and achievements of Georges lives in some secluded village in France or abroad,
Dupuis, who, though at that time only twenty- or at his birthplace, Havre, seeing no one and
seven, had, after experiencing a full share of those working steadily at the illustration of some book
trials and hardships which so often fall to the lot with which he is in sympathy, such as " Un Male "
of the artist who strikes out a path of his own, by Camille Lemonnier, " Florise Bonheur" by
just begun to make a name for himself as an Adolphe Brisson, "Pierre et Jean" by Guy de
illustrator of books. In the meantime M. Dupuis Maupassant, or " Le Jardin de Berenice " by
has not ceased to reveal himself as the fresh and Maurice Barres. The French magazine " Je sais
independent artist he gave promise of developing tout" numbers him among its contributors, and
into from the very first. Those who compare for this publication he has executed some remark-
his earlier drawings with the more recent ones able illustrations which are much appreciated,
reproduced here will perceive that his later work For some years past his talent as a painter has
has gained considerably in that assurance and been undergoing a transformation, and on the
freedom which can only come with continuous rare occasions when he has consented to exhibit
self-discipline and observation. his work outside the official salons, Georges
The pupil of no one and, save for a brief and Dupuis has shown himself to be a colourist of
power—one is tempted to
say almost of violence, but
that might even give an im-
pression of exaggeration to
such as are not aware of this
artist's conscientious and
unceasing efforts to attain
perfection. Shunning society,
fleeing from artistic coteries,
and indifferent to official
salons and art dealers, this
artist pushes his conscien-
tiousness to such lengths that
he will re-draw a subject often
as many as ten times in order
to get the exact values, and
destroys almost all his work
under the pretext, rare
enough nowadays, but with
him absolutely sincere, that
it is not worthy of being ex-
hibited. Georges Dupuis is
undoubtedly one of the most
singular among artists of the
present day, for it is rare to find
an artist of his calibre content
to live such a modest and re-
tiring life, and even to suffer
straitened circumstances, in
order that he may remain him-
self the sole judge of what he
will submit to the delibera-
'i.a fille de salle A la salpetriere" by ceo. dupuis tions of the art critics.
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