Eugène Chigot
French painter (1860–1923) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eugène Henri Alexandre Chigot (22 November 1860 – 14 July 1923) was a post impressionist French painter. A pupil of his father, the military painter Alphonse Chigot, in 1881 he entered the internationally renowned École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was exposed to the ideas of the realist movement of the Barbizon School and to Impressionism. He settled in Étaples in the Pas-de-Calais in an artists’ colony, later returning to Paris where he became a founder of the Salon d’Automne. An official military painter he painted a series of canvases in Calais and Nieuwpoort recording the destruction caused by the First World War.[2] Chigot's reputation was built on his maritime and landscape paintings that arose from his affinity to Flanders and the Pas-de-Calais. He recorded the lives of the people of Flanders placing them within a landscape of soft opalescent light. Later his paintings show traces of expressionism and a more vibrant pallette. He was also a skilled nocturne painter who travelled extensively within France, Italy and Spain.[2]
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Born | Eugène Henri Alexandre Chigot (1860-11-22)22 November 1860 Valenciennes, France |
Died | 14 July 1923(1923-07-14) (aged 62) Paris, France |
Education | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts |
Known for | Oil painting, Watercolours |
Notable work | Verrotières dans la baie,Fraipont, Juan-les-Pins. |
Movement | Naturalism, Post impressionism, |
Awards | Légion d'honneur - Chevalier (Knight) (1895) Legion d’honneur – Officier (Officer) (1912)[1] |