Auguste François Gorguet

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Auguste François-Marie Gorguet (27 September 1862 – 29 April 1927) was a French painter, draftsman, engraver and poster artist. He was a professor of drawing and laureate of the Institute.

Biography

Auguste François-Marie Gorguet was born at the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. As a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he was taught by painters Gustave Boulanger, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Léon Bonnat and Aimé Morot. He exhibited at the Salon from 1885 and his work won a prize in Chicago in 1892.

His work as a painter (canvases, panels, ceilings) was in the vein of the symbolist movement, which was soon overtaken by Art Nouveau. He was quickly put in contact with the world of opera, illustrating numerous posters, including Théodora reproduced in the magazine Masters of the Poster.

Illustrator of books such as Daudet's Sapho and Jack: Mœurs Contemporaines, Anatole France's Le Lys rouge (1903) and La Comédie de celui qui épousa une femme muette, but also the national editions of Victor Hugo, he engraved many financial securities (shares, bonds, loans) and banknotes. In 1901, he created an artistic postcard for the Collection des Cent.

Between 1914 and 1916, he supervised with Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, the Pantheon of the War, a large circular panoramic painting conceived with the assistance of some twenty artists, exhibited in a building specially built for it next to the Hôtel des Invalides. Inaugurated by Raymond Poincaré on October 19, 1918, the building that housed it was destroyed in 1960, and the painting dispersed.

He died at the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

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