Luc-Albert Moreau

"Jardins de Paris" original etching

1937

Luc-Albert Moreau is a French painter, engraver and illustrator. He was a member of the group Bande Noire, and later also a member of the Section d'Or. He attended the Académie Julian in Paris, and he painted at the Jean-Paul Laurens’s studio, where he became a friend of Jean-Louis Boussingault and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. For a brief period, he attended Charles Guérin, Georges-Pierre Olivier Desvallières, and Pierre Laprade’s lessons at the Académie de la Palette. Moreau took part in the Great War, fighting in Verdun, in Chemin des Dames and Picardy. Wounded several times, he was marked indelibly by the horrors of war. These horrors, remembrances of war and terrible shocks became the thematic fulcrum of his inspiration until 1925, when he came back to St. Tropez he began to paint still lifes, portraits, landscapes and finally he discovered a clear palette. In 1947, Moreau designed the costumes for Khamma by Claude Debussy, donated to the Théatre de l’Opéra-Comique.