Victor Prouvé

French painter

Victor Prouvé in his workshop

Victor Prouvé (French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ pʁuve] was born 13 August 1858 in Nancy, and died on 15 February 1943 at Sétif (Algeria)). He was a French painter, sculptor and engraver of the Art Nouveau École de Nancy.

He designed decors of glass works and furniture for Émile Gallé. He worked for Eugène Vallin, Fernand Courteix, the Daum Brothers and Albert Heymann. He worked on book bindings with Camille Martin and the bookbinder René Wiener.

In 1888, he discovered Tunisia, which influenced the light of his paintings.

In 1890 he went with the dissenting artists to the new Société des Beaux-Arts.^[1]

He became the second president of the École de Nancy at Émile Gallé's death, in 1904. From 1919 to 1940, he took the direction of the School of Fine Arts of Nancy.

He was the father of architect and designer Jean Prouvé (1901–1984).

Works

Selection of works by Victor Prouvé :

• 
  The voluptuous (1889)
• 
  Dawn (L'Aube), 1900
• 
  The joy of life (1904)
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  Poster for Bellieni binoculars (1903)
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  The death of the swan (1905)
• 
  Masson dining room (1903-1906)

Bibliography

• Edmonde Charles-Roux (et al.), Victor Prouvé : voyages en Tunisie (1888–1890): dessins, aquarelles, huiles, exhibition catalogue, Éditions Serpenoise (Metz), 1999, 95 p. ISBN 2876924129.
• Jean-Paul Midant, L'art nouveau en France, Les Éditions du Carrousel (Paris), 1999, 174 p.
• Madeleine Prouvé, Victor Prouvé, 1858–1943, preface of Jean Lurçat, Berger-Levrault (Paris), 1958, 204 p.
• Jean Perrin, « La collaboration entre Émile Gallé et Victor Prouvé », in Annales de l'Est, special issue, 2005, pp. 199–210^[2]
• Anne-Laure Carré, Victor Prouvé, 1858–1943, catalogue of the eponym exhibitions presented in Nancy from 17 May to 21 September 2008, Paris/Nancy, Gallimard/City of Nancy, 2008, 299 pages.^[3]
• Christian Debize, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Sophie Harent, Emmanuelle Héran, Blandine Otter, Bénédicte Pasques, Jérôme Perrin, Philippe Thiébaut and Claude Tillier, Victor Prouvé (1858–1943), Gallimard, Paris, 2008, 306 p., 463 ill., ISBN 9782070120703.^[4]
• Danielle Birck, « École de Nancy : la preuve par Prouvé, Victor », on the site of Radio France International.

Notes and references

1. L. Forrer, Prouvé, Émile Victor (1909). Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. Vol. IV. London: Spink & Son Ltd. pp. 701–703.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. Whole text Archived 2014-03-19 at the Wayback Machine.
3. Presentation of the catalogue by Anne-Laure Carré put online on 27 September 2010, retrieved 19 March 2014.
4. Victor Prouvé (1858–1943). Report by Samuel Toutain.

External links

• Victor Prouvé on the site of the École de Nancy.
• Victor Prouvé – The École de Nancy years.
• Victor Prouvé on the GeneaNet website.
• Victor Prouvé on the site of Galerie Laurencin in Lyons.
• Scanned works of Victor Prouvé in the Europeana website.
• Victor Prouvé exhibitions in Nancy in 2008.