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Based on personal and family research, we have gathered together the archives of the painter Jean Robie.
Robie, the “little master of the 19th century”, highly appreciated by a few connoisseurs and collectors, is no longer known to the general public. He was, however, honoured during his lifetime.
Jean Robie, who became famous for his subtle still-life paintings, full of colour and light, to the point where he was named “the rose-lover”, was the son of an ironmonger, a little-known, self-taught painter and a tireless traveller. In countless travel compendiums, this “painter-writer” described with great humanism, clear-sightedness and surprising modernity the societies, the daily lives and the landscapes of the countries through which he journeyed: Egypt, Algeria, Syria, the Indies, etc.
He was awarded a first prize at the Sydney International Exhibition for Belgium in 1879, was a member of the Steering Committee of the Musées Royaux de Peinture et de Sculpture de l’Etat (Royal State Museums of Painting and Sculpture) from 1882 to 1908, was made a Knight of the Order of Leopold I, Commander of the Order of Leopold II, and a member of the Académie des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts, classe Beaux-Arts (Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts, Fine Arts category), in 1891. This “enduringly simple” man remains to this day a painter highly regarded on the international scene.
The marvellous paintings he created until the age of 89, the variety found in over 300 pictures indexed so far, the painter’s rich palette, his mastery of light, the host of compositions, simple or over-burdened in line with the tastes of 19th-century bourgeois painting – all this prompted us to produce a superb, high-quality art book in full colour, published by Editions Racine and following on from the research conducted into his art.
Numerous pictorial works are certainly yet to be discovered. “Jean Robie Foundation” creation designed to: Seek out and index works by the painter (galleries, antique dealers, museums, archives, advertisements on AAA, Gazette Drouot, Eventail, artprice, artnet, auction.fr, private owners).
Centralise the research for and the plan to produce the book on the painter Robie at a single reference address. Gather together the remnants of the painter’s artistic heritage and retranscribe the family memoirs passed down to the descendants of Emma and Jeanne Washer, the painter’s sole legatees.
Gather together in one work the full biography of the painter analysed by art historian Brigitte Schuermans.
Discover in the book "Jean Robie"
Preface
Chapter I: Biography of Brigitte Schuermans, art historian
Chapter II: Catalog of works by themes
Chapter III: archives-Indian Exhibition
Chapter IV:
Robie, the “little master of the 19th century”, highly appreciated by a few connoisseurs and collectors, is no longer known to the general public. He was, however, honoured during his lifetime.
Jean Robie, who became famous for his subtle still-life paintings, full of colour and light, to the point where he was named “the rose-lover”, was the son of an ironmonger, a little-known, self-taught painter and a tireless traveller. In countless travel compendiums, this “painter-writer” described with great humanism, clear-sightedness and surprising modernity the societies, the daily lives and the landscapes of the countries through which he journeyed: Egypt, Algeria, Syria, the Indies, etc.
He was awarded a first prize at the Sydney International Exhibition for Belgium in 1879, was a member of the Steering Committee of the Musées Royaux de Peinture et de Sculpture de l’Etat (Royal State Museums of Painting and Sculpture) from 1882 to 1908, was made a Knight of the Order of Leopold I, Commander of the Order of Leopold II, and a member of the Académie des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts, classe Beaux-Arts (Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts, Fine Arts category), in 1891. This “enduringly simple” man remains to this day a painter highly regarded on the international scene.
The marvellous paintings he created until the age of 89, the variety found in over 300 pictures indexed so far, the painter’s rich palette, his mastery of light, the host of compositions, simple or over-burdened in line with the tastes of 19th-century bourgeois painting – all this prompted us to produce a superb, high-quality art book in full colour, published by Editions Racine and following on from the research conducted into his art.
Numerous pictorial works are certainly yet to be discovered. “Jean Robie Foundation” creation designed to: Seek out and index works by the painter (galleries, antique dealers, museums, archives, advertisements on AAA, Gazette Drouot, Eventail, artprice, artnet, auction.fr, private owners).
Centralise the research for and the plan to produce the book on the painter Robie at a single reference address. Gather together the remnants of the painter’s artistic heritage and retranscribe the family memoirs passed down to the descendants of Emma and Jeanne Washer, the painter’s sole legatees.
Gather together in one work the full biography of the painter analysed by art historian Brigitte Schuermans.
Discover in the book "Jean Robie"
Preface
- Philippe Roberts-Jones, Honorary Permanent Secretary of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Belgium
- Norbert Hostyn, curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ostend
Chapter I: Biography of Brigitte Schuermans, art historian
- brief biography
- pictorial work
- his literary work
Chapter II: Catalog of works by themes
- Animal
- Sparrows and grapes
- Flowers
- Composition of flowers and fruit in a setting
- Flowers and accountrements
- Fruit
- Frescos
- Seascapes and Landscapes
- Travels
Chapter III: archives-Indian Exhibition
- Robie Tasson Snel 'Park
- Portraits
- Official Titles Professsional Occupation -Exhibition-Signatures
- Robie-Tasson Snel a close friendship
- Family relics from Emma Washer, sole legatee of Jean Robie
Chapter IV:
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Footnotes
