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Pierre-Paul Jouve Art

French, 1880-1973
In the time when the School of Fine Arts and official or special academies promote the study of human model, Paul Jouve, influenced by his father, prominent landscape painter and portraitist, shows more interest in study of animal models. Since his childhood, his father took him to Paris museums and botanic gardens and to Jardin d’Acclimatation - he will keep coming back to them during his entire career - At the age of 16, simultaneously with his art studies Paul Jouve learns the art of gravure and the lithography at Henri Patrice Dillon He was then noticed by Renée Binet, the architect in charge for the construction of many buildings at Universal Exhibition in 1900, who for this occasion order from Jouve to make two groups of lions and to decorate the monumental gateway of one significant frieze in sandstone made by Alexandre Bigot. The support of the Gallery Bing where he exhibited his work in 1905 enables him to finance his travels to Europe and Algeria. Numerous journeys he undertook during his life thanks to awarded scholarships -Algeria, Equatorial, Africa or Far-East- or historical events, like those in Greece during the WWI, enabled him to record new terminology and numerous graphic and animaliers repertoires that his talent of drawer, illustrator, engraver and sculptor fantastically depicts. Paul Jouve exhibits in 1911 in the Gallery of Modern Artists, over one hundred thirty drawings and four sculptures. The press is unanimous and acknowledges the contained force and the architecture of his figures, constancy of his models and his precise meaning of forms ; Jouve’s eye sees beyond visible and catches what is sudden, fugitive, and sometimes silent ; the animal comes out from the lines of the drawing, he liked to say. The press, the critique and the collectors are also unanimous when in 1921 the Group of Four was created, gathering talents like Paul Jouve, Jean Goulden and François-Louis Schmied under the leadership of Jean Dunand. Every year until 1933, the group exhibited in the Gallery Georges Petit, different pieces like furniture, works of art, paintings, book covers and enamels. Simultaneously, Paul Jouve, now leader of the animaliers, exhibits with them regularly in the gallery Brandt. In 1929 it was renamed Gallery Malesherbes and later around 1933, it was taken over by Edouard-Marcel Sandoz. After the war the group exhibited in the gallery Art vivant and finally, from 1948 to 1957, in circle Volney, also purchased by Sandoz. Jouve’s career is marked by prestigious orders, such as Ocean liner Normandie in 1935, and the literary work he will illustrate during his career, such as Jungle book by Kypling in 1919. In years after the WWII some beautiful retrospectives of his work took place. All his life he dedicated his multiple talent to animal, drawn and statuary character of his work, without ever betraying or leaving his virtuosity. Being a great traveler, from Bedouin tents to Angkor, he gave to his work an incomparable and unique diversity made of light, architecture, expressions and imagination.
(Biography provided by Aubert Jansem Galerie)
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Artist: Pierre-Paul Jouve
Tiger Eating - Original etching (Marcilhac #370)
By Paul Jouve
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Jouve Tiger Eating, c. 1931 Original etching Unsigned proof On vellum 42 x 50 cm (c. 16 x 20 in) REFERENCES : Félix Marcilhac, "Paul Jouve, Peintre sculpteur animalier", Les É...
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Jaguar Catching a Snake - Original etching
By Paul Jouve
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Jouve Jaguar Catching a Snake, c. 1926 Original etching Unsigned proof On vellum 59 x 80 cm (c. 23 x 32 in) REFERENCES : Catalog Galeries Georges Petit, 'Exposition du groupe ...
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Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving
By Paul Jouve
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950. Copy on velin creme de Rives Artwork by Paul Jouve. Original copper engraving heightened with pochoir. Paul...
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1950s Modern Pierre-Paul Jouve Art

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Orientalist Painting Tuareg Horse Rider in the Desert, 1908 by Paul Jouve
By Paul Jouve
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Tuareg Rider in the Desert, 1908 Paul Jouve (1878-1973) Oil on panel, signed lower right. 27 ½ × 24 inches (21 ¾ × 17 1/2 frame) inches Paul Jouve’s work has been celebrated and col...
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Early 1900s Art Deco Pierre-Paul Jouve Art

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"Cheval de halage devant Notre-Dame" original lithograph
By Paul Jouve
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This impression was printed in 1901 and published in Paris by the Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne. Image size: 7 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches (195 x 130 mm). Sign...
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Le Judgement de Paris ouf famille singe
By Paul Jouve
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Judgement de Paris ouf famille singe Lithograph, 1897 Signed and dated in the stone lower right (see photo) Published in L’Estampe Moderne with their blindstamp lower right corner, Lugt 2790 (see photo) Edition 2000 Printed by Chapenois, Paris Condition: Excellent Image size: 9 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches Sheet size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches Paul Jouve (1878-1973) Paul Jouve was two years old when his father set up his ceramist workshop on Boulevard Saint Jacques in Paris. It is in this artistic universe that he grew up playing with colors, modeling the earth, pampered by his young mother, who dreamed of making a teacher of her. Very early on, his father, seeing his passion for drawing, encouraged him, introduced him to the Jardin des Plantes, where he developed a passion for the big cats that he practiced drawing. For the Universal Exhibition of 1900, the architect Binet, commissioned a frieze of wild animals of more than 100m representing tigers, bears, lions, bulls, and mouflons. This frieze will be executed in greenish brown glazed flamed sandstone by the sculptor Alexandre Bigot. Binet also ordered four lions from him to decorate the main gate...
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1890s Art Nouveau Pierre-Paul Jouve Art

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Elephant of Siva Temple - Original etching
By Paul Jouve
Located in Paris, FR
Paul JOUVE Elephant of Siva Temple Original etching Printed signature in the plate On vellum 103 x 75 cm (c. 41 x 30in) Posthumous edition by Chalcographie du Louvre, authenticated ...
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Paul Jouve - Chimpanzee - Original Engraving
By Paul Jouve
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve - Chimpanzee - Original Engraving Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950. Copy on velin creme de Rives Artwork by Paul Jouve. Original copper engraving ...
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The Judgment of Paris (Monkeys) - original lithograph (1897-1898)
By Paul Jouve
Located in Paris, FR
Paul JOUVE The Judgment of Paris (Monkeys) Original lithograph Printed signature, as issued 1897/98 Printed on paper Vélin (wove) Size 40 x 31 cm ...
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Gravure Panthere 1
By Paul Jouve
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Engraving after Paul Jouve From the work of Terrasse in 1948 490 copies Size etching: 23 x 18 cm Frame: 45 x 49 cm
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Gravure Panthere 2
By Paul Jouve
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Engraving after Paul Jouve From the work of Terrasse in 1948 490 copies Size etching: 23 x 18 cm Frame: 45 x 49 cm
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1927 Original poster entitled "Panthère noire" by Paul Jouve - Black Panther
By Paul Jouve
Located in PARIS, FR
The original 1927 poster entitled "Panthère noire" by Paul Jouve is a captivating work that embodies the artist's talent for capturing the majesty and powe...
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1920s Pierre-Paul Jouve Art

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