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a superb set of original works, engravings and original engraved brass

from the workshop of the painter and engraver

Pierre-Antoine CLUZEAU

Pierre-Antoine CLUZEAU

1884-1963

Pierre-Antoine-Marie Cluzeau, born September 1, 1884 in Saint-Mandé and died January 17, 1963 at

Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, is a French painter, engraver, draftsman and illustrator.

Biography

Pierre Cluzeau was born on September 1, 1884 in Saint-Mandé. From the age of sixteen, he suffered from asthma.

Commercial employee in Issy-les-Moulineaux, he devotes his evenings to his passion for drawing

in the studio of Mr. Bricoux in Paris (Place des Vosges).

In 1904, his family moved to Saint-Maur-des-Fossés where he exhibited with other painters the following year at the town hall. In 1908, he obtained two bronze medals from the City of Paris. The same year, he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Paris. According to Noël Coret, he had as masters Luc-Olivier Merson then Raphaël Collin.

In 1912, he stayed in Murat and Mauriac (Cantal), from where he brought back a series of enhanced drawings.

Advised by the aquafortist Lochelongue, he produced his first engraved plates

after the drawings of Auvergne.

The Great War put an end to this carefree period and constituted a painful ordeal for the entire Cluzeau family. Pierre-Antoine enlisted, but, asthmatic and in fragile health, he was discharged and assigned as a nurse and housekeeper at the hospital in the colonial garden of Nogent-sur-Marne.

His brother Henri was killed on the front in 1917 and his mother, devastated by grief, died the same year.
His father, Auguste, remains alone.

Three years after the war, Pierre-Antoine marries. With his wife and two children, he moved into the family home and devoted the rest of his life to his art. The trips he undertakes in all regions of France, in search of healthy pure air, inspire him with a multitude of designs,
engravings, watercolours…

Discreet without being solitary, he rubs shoulders with other artists, participates in exhibitions, produces illustrations and honors a certain number of commissions. His landscapes are evocations of nature but also of life.
They are inhabited by characters who go about their business,
and bear witness to the atmosphere of an entire era.
The city and the remarkable or picturesque architectural elements also occupy
an important place in his work.

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In this artistic journey of great richness, the period spent at the Jardin colonial hospital
of Nogent-sur-Marne constitutes a parenthesis that is both interesting and original.
This hospital was set up in 1914 within the confines of the Colonial Garden, a garden created in 1899 with the aim of studying the development of plants grown overseas.

Pierre-Antoine Cluzeau strives to bring his help to the wounded of war, originating for the majority of the French colonies. In addition to the nursing care he provides them, he talks to them, listens to them, takes an interest in their personal history, and befriends some of them.

Little by little, he comes to draw their portrait and, in this climate of mutual trust, the soldiers themselves commission him. For the most part, the artist notes the soldier's name, ethnicity, medals or awards, and any injuries or ailments he suffers from.

These portraits constitute a singular, sensitive and living testimony of the First World War. Beyond their undeniable artistic qualities, these portraits of colonial soldiers are so many rare images, imbued with humanity, delicacy and respect.

A century later, they have acquired an exceptional documentary and historical significance.

The artist's family donated theentirety of these portraits Museum of Saint-Maur (Villa Medici)
who frequently organizes exhibitions around this work

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Pierre-Antoine CLUZEAU exhibits engravings at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris from 1920
and at the Salon of French Artists.
In 1924, he obtained a bronze medal at this same salon.

Pierre Cluzeau died on January 17, 1963 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.

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You will find in my ebay shop many engravings (years 1912/1930-40)
evoking various regions of France:

Paris and its surroundings (edges of the Marne, Champigny, Joinville le pont, St Maur and St-Maurice), Auvergne, Alsace, Vosges (surroundings of Gerardmer), Provence (St-Paul de Vence, Vence, etc ...),
Normandy (Honfleur, Lisieux, Rouen), Nantes,
&vs...

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We will suggest to the extent that on ebay, a very large number of original etchings signed

of the artist (in various states, in black or enhanced by hand with period colors), a few drawings, paintings, original watercolors, and above all a very large number of original brass of the Artist

used for the printing of these engravings

About 150 brass instruments in all, representing almost the whole

from the engraved work of Pierre-Antoine Cluzeau

Bibliography

-“Pierre-Antoine Cluzeau”, note in the Bénézit dictionary

-Noël Coret, The painters of the Marne valley: around impressionism,

Renaissance of the book, 2000, pp. 46-49

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A very beautiful and rare engraving by the Artist

representing the village of

vence

(Provence)