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Jean Despujols

Jean Despujols (1886 - 1965) was active/lived in Louisiana / France.  Jean Despujols is known for Landscape, military, idyllic scene.

Jean Despujols
1886-1965

Jean Despujols was born in Salles, in the Bordeaux region of France. He was a student in Bordeaux and then in Paris. In 1914 he won the prestigious Prix de Rome. He was a soldier on the front in World War One, where he did many sketches of his experiences.

Despujols exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries, Salon des Indépendants, Salon des Artistes Français. He won many prizes. He exhibited in Copenhagen, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Geneva.

In 1923 he became a professor at l'Académie Americaine des Beaux-Arts, at Fontainebleau. He continued to paint and exhibit for the next decade.

Despujols traveled to Indochina in 1937-38 on an official mission to document, in art, his experiences. He produced more than three hundred works that were exhibited at l'Orangerie des Tuileries, unfortunately this corresponded with the declaration of war in 1939.

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