Tobeen
French painter
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::summary French painter ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Tobeen |
| image | File:Tobeen, 1912, Pelotaris, oil on canvas, 147.5 x 115.5 cm.jpg |
| image_size | 220px |
| caption | Pelotaris, 1912 |
| birth_name | Félix Bonnet |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Bordeaux, France |
| death_date | |
| death_place | Saint-Valery-sur-Somme |
| nationality | French |
| field | Painting |
| movement | Cubism |
| :: |
| name = Tobeen | image = File:Tobeen, 1912, Pelotaris, oil on canvas, 147.5 x 115.5 cm.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Pelotaris, 1912 | birth_name = Félix Bonnet | birth_date = | birth_place = Bordeaux, France | death_date = | death_place = Saint-Valery-sur-Somme | nationality = French | field = Painting | training = | movement = Cubism | works = | patrons = | awards =
Tobeen (July 20, 1880 – March 1938) is the pseudonym of the French artist Félix Bonnet.
Life
Tobeen stayed frequently in the western part of thé Pyrenees, Basque Country, but was born and bred in Bordeaux. Because of his frequent reference to Basque subjects within his paintings he became known as a Basque artist. However, he was not a Basque and neither were his parents.
From 1910 he worked in Paris where he maintained relations with the group of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and with the group of the Duchamp brothers (Gaston, Raymond and Marcel) in Puteaux. He exhibited eleven works at the Salon de la Section d'Or, Galerie La Boétie, Paris, October 1912.
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Tobeen's paintings, drawings and woodcarvings show the traces of his Parisian period and his passion for the poetry in human life, but he was not a city-dweller. He loved a life of liberty, the sea, the woods. After 1920 he settled in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, where he died in 1938.
Exhibitions
- Salon de la Section d'Or, Galerie La Boétie (Paris), 1912
- Armory Show (New York), 1913
- Mánes Union of Fine Arts, Mánes Pavilion, (S.V.U. Manes), Prague, 1914
- Tobeen, un poète du cubisme: Bordeaux, Galerie Musée des Beaux Arts, June 8 – September 16, 2012
Museum collections
The Netherlands
- Centraal Museum, Utrecht
- Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
- In former times Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, Spanbroek
France
- , Bayonne
- Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
- Musées Menton, collection Wakefield, Menton
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Nancy
References
3.Tobeen, un moderne chez les Basques, biography by Goikoetxea Jean Paul, ed. Pimientos, 2012.
References
- [http://www.tobeen.org/synopsis Tobeen (Félix Élie Bonnet), Synopsis of the monograph: ''Tobeen. Un poète du cubisme'', by Rosella Huber-Spanier, 2012]
- [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/exhibit-catalog-salon-de-la-section-dor-15197 Exhibit catalog for Salon de "La Section d'Or", 1912, pp. 12-13, nos. 140-150, no. 116. Walter Pach papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution]
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