Nationality French Role Artist Known for Painting | Name Felix Bonnet Movement Cubism Period Cubism | |
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Full Name Felix Elie Bonnet Born July 20, 1880 ( 1880-07-20 ) Bordeaux, France Died March 14, 1938, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, France | ||
Tobeen (Bordeaux, July 20, 1880 - Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, March 1938) is the pseudonym of the French artist Felix Elie Bonnet.
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Tobeen stayed frequently in the western part of the Pyrenees, Basque Country, but was born and bred in Bordeaux. Because of his frequent reference to Basque subjects within his paintings he became known as a Basque artist. However, he was not a Basque and neither were his parents.
From 1910 he worked in Paris where he maintained relations with the group of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and with the group of the Duchamp brothers (Gaston, Raymond and Marcel) in Puteaux. He exhibited eleven works at the Salon de la Section d'Or, Galerie La Boetie, Paris, October 1912.
But Tobeen was not a city-dweller. He loved a life of liberty, the sea, the woods and after 1920 he settled in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme. Tobeen's paintings, drawings and woodcarvings show the traces of his Parisian period and his passion for the poetry in human life.
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