André Suréda

André Suréda (5 June 1872, Versailles - 7 January 1930, Versailles) was a French painter, designer, engraver and illustrator. He was married to the artist, Alice Dumas.

Biography

He came from a noble Spanish family. His great-grandfather, Don Bartolomé Sureda y Miserol, had his portrait painted by Francisco de Goya in 1805.

He studied at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris; then at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, where his primary instructor was Tony Robert-Fleury. He was awarded a scholarship there in 1904. After 1910, he painted Orientalist scenes, exclusively.

From 1902 to 1925, he was a regular exhibitor at the Salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts. He also participated in the colonial expositions of 1906 and 1922. He was a frequent traveler to North Africa, where he made the acquaintance of the sculptor, Georges Hilbert. In 1927, he presented several works at the Machine-Age Exposition in New York. Two years later, he provided illustrations for Au soleil, a travel book by Guy de Maupassant. He also illustrated two works by Jean and Jérôme Tharaud; Marrakech ou les seigneurs de l’Atlas (1924), with engravings by François-Louis Schmied, and L'An prochain à Jérusalem (1929), engraved by Georges Beltrand.

His works may be seen at the Musée Lambinet, the Musée Rolin in Autun, and the Ahmed Zabana National Museum in Oran.

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  Young woman admiring her child
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  The Quranic School
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  Women at the Fountain

Sources

• Exhibition Catalogue from the Musée Lambinet, June–July 1983
• Hamid Nacer-Khodja, "Le peintre orientaliste Andréa Suréda, générosité d'un talent", in El Watan, October 2007
• Exhibition Catalogue from the Musée Rolin, June–October 2008

External links

Media related to André Suréda at Wikimedia Commons

• Portrait of Suréda, by his wife Alice @ the Ville de Versailles (Facebook)
• More works by Suréda @ ArtNet