Raymond Thibesart (1874-1968)

Raymond Thibesart’s ethereal landscapes won great acclaim in the French Salons in the early twentieth century. Born in 1874, in the elegant town of Bar-sur-Aube, surrounded by gently rolling hills and the champagne vineyards of the Grand Est region, the beauty of the French landscape and the artistic possibilities that it evoked made a deep impression on the young Thibesart.

In his early twenties Thibesart studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later at the progressive Académie Julian under the tutorage of Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury, who introduced a strong element of symbolism into his work. In 1903 Thibesart moved to Vaux sur Seine in the countryside to the north-west of Paris, encouraged by Boggio who had moved to the area the year earlier. The two artists travelled frequently to Italy, Switzerland and Belgium, often with their fellow artist and friend Henri Martin, to find new sources of inspiration.

Jacques

van den Bussche (1925-2001)

Jacques was a french artist, he was a student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille in 1943; and then the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1945, his first personal exhibition took place in Casablanca in 1952 and 1954. He began to appear in 1953 at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, the Prix Fénéon, the Prix Friesz, then in 1960 at the Salon d’Automne