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Gaston Suisse

Gaston Suisse (1896 - 1988) was active/lived in France.  Gaston Suisse is known for Art Deco style lacquer furniture, inlay, animal subjects, abstraction.

Gaston Suisse was born in Paris on December 1st, 1896 and died at his Parisian home in the 13th arrondissement on March 7th 1988. He was born into a family of artists; his brother was a violinist; his father, a collector and book-lover, owned a library with over 10 000 works, including beautiful documentation on Japanese and Chinese art. Early on he gave his son a taste for books and Far Eastern art, which became relevant to his career.

Already at 5 or 6 years old, he began to reproduce the plates in his father's books, drew his cat and proved himself to be very talented. His father encouraged him in this path, bringing him to visit all the important museums while he was very young and taking him regularly to the Jardin des Plantes, where the young Gaston Suisse discovered new models, observing the animals at length before making sketches of them.

It was at the Jardin des Plantes, when he was 15 years old, that he met Paul Jouve, already a famous, well establishe   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11674 characters.]  Artist bio

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