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Benoit Benoni-Auran

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Benoît Benoni-Auran
Family scene
Family scene, Monteux
Born
Marie-Benoît Dit Benoni Auran [1]

13 December 1859
Died25 January 1944
NationalityFrench
Known forPainting, drawing
Notable work
  • Les Quais de la Seine à Paris
  • La promenade au Parc
  • Bergers Dans Les Calanques De Piana
  • Le port de Riberon
  • Le vieux port de Marseille

Benoît Benoni-Auran (13 December 1859 in Monteux - 25 January 1944)[1][2] was a Provençal master painter.

Biography

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Benoni-Auran's training began at the Séminaire de Sainte-Garde in Saint-didier, Vaucluse where French painter Pierre Laplanche taught him drawing. During this period he perfected his skills in pictorial art in contact with artists Jules Laurens , Némorin Cabane and Léonce de Seynes.[3]

A postcard from 1909 about the royalist and anti-Dreyfus vandalism of the Scheurer-Kestner monument.
A postcard from 1909 about the royalist and anti-Dreyfus vandalism of the Scheurer-Kestner monument.

He would go on to study at École des Beaux-Arts d'Avignon (now École des Beaux-Arts d'Avignon) where he became a pupil of Pierre Grivolas and was awarded a travel grant. Around 1881, with the support of Jules Laurens, Benoni-Auran would be admitted to the Beaux-Arts de Paris and would join Alexandre Cabanel's atelier. In 1888 he joined Jean-Baptiste Lavastre's atelier where he collaborated in the creation of murals in the central dome for the Exposition Universelle (1889).

Works

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Some of his works are displayed in the Town Hall of Monteux.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Family tree of Marie-Benoit Dit Benoni AURAN". Geneanet. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  2. ^ Chabaud, Jean-Paul (2000). Peintres autour du Ventoux: XIXe et XXe siècles : répertoire chronologique de notices biographiques (in French). Connaissance des pays du Ventoux. ISBN 978-2-87923-130-3.
  3. ^ Notre ami et collaborateur Benoni-Auran, Le Coup de fouet, 25 avril 1912, p. 86.