Paul Cesar Elleux ( French Paul César Helleu , December 17, 1859 , Van - March 23, 1927 , Paris ) - French artist and engraver.
| Paul Cesar Ellot | |
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| fr. Paul César Helleu | |
 Paul Elle, 1903 | |
| Date of Birth | December 17, 1859 |
| Place of Birth | Van , France |
| Date of death | March 23, 1927 (67 years old) |
| A place of death | Paris , France |
| Citizenship |  France |
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Content
- 1 Biography and creativity
- 2 Recognition
- 3 Image in art
- 4 notes
- 5 Pictures
- 6 Literature
- 7 References
Biography and Creativity
As a child, he lost his father. At the age of 15, he discovered impressionism . He studied at the National Higher School of Art with Jean-Leon Jerome . In 1884, Elle was invited to the family of the French artist Guerin to paint a portrait of his daughter, 14-year-old Alice Guerin. In 1886, a 16-year-old girl became the artist's wife and his muse for life.
Ellie masters the technique of dry needles and becomes one of the first artists to use this technique in its pure form after three engravings by Dürer in 1512. Elle performs about 1,500 works using the dry needle technique. Among them, interesting portraits of figures of a beautiful era prevail, most often women, the most famous of which is the portrait of the Parisian courtesan Liana de Puzh . Often his wife Alice Guerin is portrayed as a woman with long red hair.
Ellie was also friends with Robert de Montesquieu , Giovanni Boldini , John Sargent , Marcel Proust (he left Proust's drawing on his deathbed).
He created sketches for painting the ceiling of the Central Station in New York (1912) - on the theme of the Milky Way crossing the zodiac signs.
Recognition
He was known not only in Paris, but also in London . Knight of the Legion of Honor (1904).
Image in Art
He became the prototype of the artist Elstir in Proust’s novel “ In Search of Lost Time ” [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Grechanaya, 2019 , p. 535.
Pictures
John Sargent . Portrait of Paul Elle, approx. 1885-1889
Paul Elle . Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough, 1901
Paul Elle . Portrait of Alice Gueren, 1900
Literature
- Grechanaya E.P. Notes // Proust M. Young Proust in letters (1885-1907) / comp. A. D. Mikhailov. - St. Petersburg .: Limbus Press, 2019 .-- 576 p. - 1,500 copies
- Montesquiou-Fézensac R. de . Paul Helleu, peintre et graveur. Paris: H. Floury, 1913
- Paul-Cesar Helleu, 1859-1927: glimpses of the grace of women. New York: Knoedler, 1974
- Dini fr Boldini, Helleu, Sem: protagonisti e miti della Belle Epoque. Milano: Skira, 2006