Born: 1884

Died: 1974

André Dunoyer de Segonzac rose to become one of France's most important 20th Century painters. His works are in National collections all around the world. He created several hundred prints, mainly etchings a technique of which he was to become an acknowledged master.

From 1990 he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris and joined the studio of Luc Olivier Merson in 1903. In 1907, Segonzac met Luc-Albert Moreau and de Boussignault (with whom he shared a studio).  In 1908 his first drawings were published in "La Grande Revue" and "Le Témoin". In 1907, Segonzac's still lifes, nudes and landscapes were exhibited in the Salon des Indépendants and at the Salon d'Automne.

Around that time, Segonzac rented a villa at Saint Tropez, where he was to spend his summers until his death. Every winter he would travel widely throughout France. In 1910, Segonzac met Max Jacob and Maurice de Vlaminck and from 1910 to 1914, he travelled in Italy, Spain and Africa. He fought in the in the infantry during the Great War, and recorded much of what he saw in drawings. Indeed, by1919 his work was widely exhibited in France and he had become internationally known (a major exhibition of his work was held in London in 1920). In 1934 he won the prize at the Venice Biennale, in 1938 he was exhibited in Chicago.

Ironically, having travelled so extensively, he died in Paris close to his native Essonne.

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