About the Artist
Maurice Brianchon
Maurice Brianchon (1899-1979) was a French painter born in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe, France. In 1917, Maurice Brianchon between the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris in Fernand Cormon workshop and in 1918 left this school to follow at the National School of Decorative Arts courses Eugene Island Morand (1853-1930) 2 who taught there since 1908. There he met Roland Oudot, Raymond Legueult, Joseph Inguimberty, François Desnoyers, Jacques Adnet and Kostya Terechkovitch. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne in 1919. A trip to Belgium and the Netherlands introduced him to the Flemish and Dutch painters through the museums he visited Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges and Amsterdam. This is the time he rereads the Masters of Eugene Fromentin once. He left the decorative arts.
In 1922 he became a member of the Salon d'Automne of the committee and takes with his friend Raymond Legueult a Maine Avenue studio in Paris. Jacques Rouche, director of the Paris Opera asked him to create the costumes for the ballet Griselidis which will premiere on November 29, 1922. In 1924, he received the Blumenthal prize and a scholarship to the School of Decorative Arts that allow it to do, in the company of Legueult, a trip to Spain where they discover in the Prado museum masters of Spanish painting as they admire and they make copies: Diego Velazquez, Goya, El Greco.
