Benoit Benoni-Auran
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Benoît Benoni-Auran | |
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Born | Marie-Benoît Dit Benoni Auran [1] 13 December 1859 |
Died | 25 January 1944 |
Nationality | French |
Known for | Painting, drawing |
Notable work |
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Benoît Benoni-Auran (13 December 1859 in Monteux - 25 January 1944)[1][2] was a Provençal master painter.
Biography
[edit]Benoni-Auran's training began at the Séminaire de Sainte-Garde in Saint-didier, Vaucluse where French painter Pierre Laplanche taught him drawing. During this period he perfected his skills in pictorial art in contact with artists Jules Laurens , Némorin Cabane and Léonce de Seynes.[3]
![A postcard from 1909 about the royalist and anti-Dreyfus vandalism of the Scheurer-Kestner monument.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Monument_Scheurer-Kestner_%28Benoni-Auran%29.jpg/220px-Monument_Scheurer-Kestner_%28Benoni-Auran%29.jpg)
He would go on to study at École des Beaux-Arts d'Avignon (now École des Beaux-Arts d'Avignon) where he became a pupil of Pierre Grivolas and was awarded a travel grant. Around 1881, with the support of Jules Laurens, Benoni-Auran would be admitted to the Beaux-Arts de Paris and would join Alexandre Cabanel's atelier. In 1888 he joined Jean-Baptiste Lavastre's atelier where he collaborated in the creation of murals in the central dome for the Exposition Universelle (1889).
Works
[edit]Some of his works are displayed in the Town Hall of Monteux.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Family tree of Marie-Benoit Dit Benoni AURAN". Geneanet. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
- ^ Chabaud, Jean-Paul (2000). Peintres autour du Ventoux: XIXe et XXe siècles : répertoire chronologique de notices biographiques (in French). Connaissance des pays du Ventoux. ISBN 978-2-87923-130-3.
- ^ Notre ami et collaborateur Benoni-Auran, Le Coup de fouet, 25 avril 1912, p. 86.