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Amedee Ozenfant (1886-1966) 
Aliases: Amédée Ozenfant; Amedee J. Ozenfant; Saugnier; Vauvrecy
Professions: Figure painter; Painter; Still life painter
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- Amédée Ozenfant , 1886-1966 Le Pichet Blanc oil on canvas
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Amédée Ozenfant , 1886-1966 Nature morte à la bouteille Pastel on paper
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Amédée Ozenfant , 1886-1966 Composition puriste Colored pencil, pastel, charcoal and pencil on paper
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- Amédée Ozenfant , 1886-1966 NATURE MORTE pastel, fusain et gouache sur papier
Biography: Ozenfant
(b saint-quentin, aisne, 15 april 1886; d cannes, 4 may 1966). french painter, writer and teacher. born into a bourgeois family, he studied at dominican colleges, first saint-elme d’arcachon and then captier in saint-sébastien. following his studies, he returned to his native saint-quentin, where he began to paint in watercolours and pastels. in 1904 he enrolled in the drawing course taught by jules-alexandre patrouillard degrave at the ecole municipale de dessin quentin delatour in saint-quentin. by 1905 he was producing plein-air paintings in oil. in the same year he travelled to paris, where he studied the decorative arts, first with the french painter maurice verneuil (b 1869) and then with charles cottet.
Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online
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