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Biography : Gabriel Fournier (Gabriel-Francisque - Alexis Fournier)
1893-?
Artist born on the 26 may 1893 in Grenoble (Isère)
Gabriel Fournier was studying at the “Ecole des Beaux-Arts” of Lyon and after that at the “Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs”. He was making reproductions of Fra Angelico and Delacroix at the Louvre museum. He has begun his career at the “Salon des Indépendants” and he was working at the designer’s studio of R. Dufy till his mobilization in 1918. After that he was working as artist in Provence, in Dauphiné and in Fontainebleau where he had a personal art studio. Being a member of the Salon d’Automne, he has organised exhibitions with Marquet, Laprade, Bouche and Mainssieux, in 1939 at the Kunsthalle in Bâle. He was a member of the new painters, who took part in the exhibitions of the Huyghens Street, during the end of the Second World War. Celebrities as Erik Satie, Annic and Poulenc were making speeches during the exhibitions at the Huyghens Street. Nowadays, paintings of this sensible artist can be seen at the Petit Palais of Paris, at the Alger’s museum, in Grenoble, Pau, Saint-Etienne and Moscou (the Museum of the eastern art). Gabriel Fournier has made a donation of two paintings to the National Manufacture of Gobelins: “The Baptising of Jesus Christ” and “The Flowers”.