Albert LEBOURG (1849-1928)

Considered as a French Impressionist, Lebourg became friendly with Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. He first exhibited at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français in 1883 and again in 1886. In 1889, Lebourg would begin exhibiting at the foundation of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and exhibit regularly from 1891 to 1914. After living and working in numerous places in northern France, Lebourg traveled in the Netherlands (1895–18977) and in 1900, he spent a short period in Britain, which confirmed his love of Turner, Constable and Gainsborough. He continued working in a luminous Impressionist style up until 1921 when he was paralyzed by a stroke.

MUSEUM :
Paris (musée d’Orsay, musée Carnavalet & musée du Petit Palais), Genève, Léningrad, Tokyo, Rio, Swansea, Buenos Aires, Alger, Oran, Rouen, Lyon, Göteborg, Bucarest, Lille, Honfleur, Le Havre, Evreux, Caen, etc.

BIBLIOGRAPHY :
– Léonce Bénédite “Albert Lebourg”, catalogue raisonné, 1923
– “Dictionnaire universel de la peinture” Le Robert, 1975
– Bénézit, “Dictionnaire des peintres et sculpteurs”, Gründ, 1999
– Thieme-Becker “Dictionnaire Biographique des artistes Contemporains 1910-1924”, Paris