André Bauchant. Catalogue Raisonné. New Condition

Paris and Bern: Benteli, 2005.. 4to . Text in french and English. 2 vols. cloth in d-j 640 pp. 47 pp. supplement in wraps: 4pp.1997 illustrations mainly in color. André Bauchant (1873-1958) is one of those French artists long known as "naive painters" for whom the term "modern primitives" would be much more appropriate. Besides landscapes of the Touraine countryside and pictures of flowers and birds, he painted poetic and mythical visions. A horticulturist by profession, he did not embark on his career as a painter until he was 46. His work is marked by his close affinity with nature and his passion for ancient mythologies, In 1921 Bauchant exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne in Pans. where he came to the attention of Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, who became Bauchant's mentor and a passionate collector of his work, In 1927 Sergei Diaghilev, the founder and managerof the Ballets Russes, commissioned him to do the stage design for the ballet Apollon musagète by IgorStravinsky; the work was first performed in 1928. In 1948 the Galerie Charpentier in Paris organized the first retrospective of his work. Andre Bauchant's position in the shadow of his far more famous fellow-painter Henri Rousseau is unjustified.For the first time, this catalogue raisonné offers a comprehensive overview of Bauchant's art, and thusprovides the basis for are-evaluation.ISBN 9783716515679