Pierre Brissaud
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| Brouillard (fog) by Pierre Brissaud, |
| Gazette du Bon Ton (1920) |
Pierre Brissaud, French-born art deco illustrator born: Paris, December 23, 1885-1964. Trained at Atelier Fernand Cormon in Montmartre, Paris with fellow students André Marty, Charles Martin and Georges Lepape. Students at the workshop drew, painted and designed wallpaper, furniture and posters. A generation earlier, Toulouse Lautrec, Van Gogh, and Henri Matisse had studied there.
Brissaud is known for his pochoir (stencil) prints for the fashion magazine "Gazette du Bon Ton" published by Lucien Vogel, Paris. Many of his illustrations are realistic leisure scenes of the well-to-do. They illustrate the designs of Paris fashion houses such as Jeanne Lanvin, Chéruit, Worth, De Beer, and Doucet. Brissaud's illustrations appeared in "Vogue" after it bought "Bon Ton" in 1925, as well as "House and Garden" and "Fortune", and in books, for example, "Madame Bovary" and "Manon Lescaut".
In 1907 he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne.
Bibliography
- "Art Deco Designs in Color" Charles Rahn Fry (Ed.), N. Y., Dover, 1975 ISBN 0486232166
- "French Fashion Plates in Full Color from the Gazette du Bon Ton (1912-1925)", Lepape et.al., N. Y., Dover, 1979 ISBN 0486238059
- "Pochoir Art Déco", Giuliano Ercoli, N.Y. Rizzoli, 1989, ISBN 0847810380
- "Pierre Brissaud: La grande époque, Paris 1909 - 1929, l'art et la mode", Hôtel Drouot (auction house), Paris.1968 (Getty Mus. Lib.)
- "Pierre Brissaud" Jean Dulac, pub. Henri Babou, 1929, Paris, (Getty Mus. Lib. & N. Y. Pub. Lib.)
- "Exposition de peintures...Pierre Brissaud", Louis Vauxcelles, pub. Devambez, (art dealers), Paris, 1909, (N. Y. Pub. Lib.)
- "Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs", Emmanuel Bénézit, Pub. Paris, Gründ, 1999 ISBN 0828856354