Art Wanted

Gaston La Touche

Gaston La Touche (1854 - 1913) was active/lived in France.  Gaston La Touche is known for Garden landscape, figure and portrait painting, murals.

Born at St Cloud, near Paris, on the 29th October 1854, Gaston La Touche showed an early vocation for an artistic career.  From the age of about ten years, he spent every available moment of recreation in drawing, and finally managed to obtain permission from his parents to take lessons from a M. Paul, who quickly discovered his natural aptitude and encouraged the young boy to persevere with his studies.

Interrupted by the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, the lessons ceased when the family fled to Normandy.  La Touche never received any further formal training, but he came under the influence of two older painters, one of whom in particular was to have a profound and far-reaching effect on the development of European painting. The two were Félix Bracquemond and Edouard Manet.

After the Paris Commune and the war, Manet, Degas and a group of painters, critics, poets and authors used to gather regularly at the Café de la Nouvelle-Athènes (c 1877-79) to discuss art and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11699 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 241 auction lots for Gaston La Touche (of which 125 auction records sold and 1 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 1 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Gaston La Touche as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Gaston La Touche in 0 of its research Essays. Gaston La Touche has 11 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Gaston La Touche available:    Jean Beraud,  Louis Aime Japy,  Albert Andre,  Leon Augustin L'hermitte,  Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,  George Jules Ernest Binet,  Delphin Enjolras,  Frits Thaulow,  Henri Manguin,  Hippolyte Camille Delpy,  Albert Marie Lebourg,  Jacques Emile Blanche,  Gustave Camille Gaston Cariot,  Theodore Van Rysselberghe,  Guillaume Seignac,  Gustave Loiseau,  Jean Francois Raffaelli,  Henri Sidaner,  Franz Richard Unterberger,  Emilio Sanchez Perrier,  Luigi Loir,  Martin Rico y Ortega,  Maxime Camille Louis Maufra,  Henri Fantin-Latour