Auguste Leroux

See also: Leroux

Jules Marie Auguste Leroux (1871 - 1954) is a painter and Illustrateur French.

Presentation

Raise Leon Bonnat, it gains the Grand Prix of Rome in 1894. It exposes to the Salon of the French artists to the beginning of the year 1898 and becomes member of the jury in 1904. It gains the bronze medal with the World Fair of Paris in 1900 and was decorated Chevalier with the Légion of honor.

Leroux exposed in several Parisian galleries among which the Galerie Allard, the Galerie Small, the Galerie Carpenter and the Galerie Mona LISA. It carried out also the plans of several public buildings like some of the images of the mosaic of the church of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre. Auguste Leroux had also a good success as an illustrator of books (Balzac, Flaubert, Stendhal). Its first work was impressed of symbolism and Art nouveau mingled with many mythological references and allegorical subjects. Its later works show more academic rigor and an obvious fascination for the female anatomy. They are required today amateurs, in particular its portraits and its ballerinas. Recently several tables of Auguste Leroux were sold on the market following the public sale of its workshop by its descendants.

Auguste Leroux illustrated:

  • the Sower of ashes of Charles Guerin - edition of 1923, Paris Bookstore of the amateurs - A. Ferrroud - F. Ferroud, successor
  • History of my life of Giacomo Casanova - edition of 1932, Paris - Javal & Bourdeaux

See too

  • List of French painters

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