Ker xavier roussel biography channel 6

His wife Marie Vuillard's sister , his daughter Annette, his son Jacques and his grandchildren served as models. He abandoned the small format pictures typical of the Nabis and created large, brightly coloured paintings in a post-impressionist style. His paintings celebrated the seasons, abundance, drunkenness, lustful behaviour and dance, the latter influenced by Isadora Duncan.

While Roussel expressed erotic joy in his bucolic pictures the 'glorious blaze of the flesh' , he also had a melancholy and dark side expressed in dark lithographic illustrations to works by Maurice de Guerin, La Bacchante and Le Centaure. Between and he was admitted to a clinic, suffering from depression. He produced large numbers of pastels in his final years, between and , picturing violent death in mythology.

Ker xavier roussel biography channel 6: Late Antiquity: a historiographic

Roussel is known for huge paintings of landscapes decorating public spaces, with others commissioned for private clients. His reputation reached a peak in with a multi-panel scheme for the Palais de Chaillot. Ker-Xavier Roussel French, — Show 30 50 Groupe bachique