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Jean Puy (1876-1960) 
Professions: Painter
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Jean Puy , 1876 - 1960 NU AU PEIGNOIR oil on canvas
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PUY, JEAN
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JEAN PUY 1876-1960
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Jean Puy (1876-1960)
Biography: Puy
(b Roanne, nr Lyon, 8 Nov 1876; d Roanne, 7 March 1960). French painter and printmaker. At 19 he undertook training in architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, but he soon decided to become a painter. He studied for two years (c . 1895–6) with Tony Tollet (1857–after 1935), a student of Alexandre Cabanel, whose essentially academic realist style gave him a sound foundation in draughtsmanship. The museum and art life of Lyon likewise enriched his early years. He moved to Paris in late 1897 or early 1898 to study at the Académie Julian under the history painter Jean-Paul Laurens. Puy was dissatisfied, however, with the studio conditions, with the lack of freedom offered to students and with Laurens’s reliance on bitumen and a dark palette. After a summer in Brittany he decided instead to study with Eugène Carrière, in whose studio he found more openness and discussion among the students. There he met Henri Matisse, André Derain and Pierre Laprade.
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