LOUIS FORTUNEY

French, 1875 - 1951

BIOGRAPHY
Louis Ernest Fortuné Andrieux, who used the pseudonym Louis Fortuney throughout his career, was born in 1875 in Argeliers in the Aude department of the Occitanie region of southern France.

He began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse where he won two prizes. At the age of twenty, Fortuney went to Paris and learned the art of illustration from Toulouse-Lautrec.

Fortuney did not wish to be categorized as a post-Impressionist or Fauvist but he was a bit of both, moving from graphic work to caricature to illustration. He worked primarily in the medium of pastel and in Paris his subjects were cafés, theaters, ballet, opera — elegant women, portraits, vaudeville. Later in his life Fortuney returned to the south of France where he focused more on landscapes that showed the profound influence of both Renoir and Degas. He painted multiple seascapes, particularly coastal views near St. Raphaël in the Côte d’Azur.

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