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Deux Femmes sous un arbre en fleur, circa 1895 |
Apple Tree with Red Fruit, circa 1902, Museum of Fine Art Houston |
SEE ALSO NABIS
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Deux Femmes sous un arbre en fleur, circa 1895 |
Apple Tree with Red Fruit, circa 1902, Museum of Fine Art Houston |
Painter, designer of tapestries, puppeteer. Wealthy like Lacombe, bourgeois of extreme left. Made elegant and celebrated non woven tapestries embroidered by Mme Ranson after paper sketches. Almost all have vanished. Sinuous lines in his composition. More of a Nabi japonard than Bonnard.
Student at the Academie Julian
Creative Leader of the Nabi. They gathered at his studio on Saturdays at 25 Bl de Montparnasse, formerly the Hotel de la Montespan. They would also meet at Lamcombe’s place. Both places were called ergasterium. Ranson’s was also called The Temple and Mme Ranson ‘The Light of The Temple’ R gave everyone their picturesque soubriquet.
Opened Academie Ranson.
Dies. The Academie is kept running by his wife and the Nabi, especially Denis and Serusier.
SOURCES
3) The Nabis and their period. Charles Chasse’. Translated by Michael Bullock 1969. Lund Humphries, London. First published French 1960.
