Maximilien Luce

Maximilien Luce.

Montmartre, de la rue Cortot, vue vers saint-denis, oil on canvas painting by Maximilien Luce, c. 1900

Maximilien Luce (March 13, 1858 – February 6, 1941) was a French Neo-impressionist artist. A printmaker, painter, and anarchist, Luce is best known for his pointillist canvases. He grew up in the working class Montparnasse, and became a painter of landscapes and urban scenes which frequently emphasize the activities of people at work. He was a member of the Groupe de Lagny with Léo Gausson, Émile-Gustave Cavallo-Péduzzi and Lucien Pissarro.

Like Camille Pissarro, Luce was active with anarchist groups in Paris in the 1890s, and in 1894 served a brief prison term^{[citation needed]} during the Trial of the thirty, before being acquitted. One of his friends in this period was the Swedish artist Ivan Aguéli. During World War I, Luce painted war scenes, depicting soldiers struggling against the horrors of the Great War. Luce died in Paris in 1941.

Collections

Collections holding work by Luce include:

• Art Institute of Chicago
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Davis Museum and Cultural Center, (Wellesley College)
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Harvard University Art Museums
• Honolulu Academy of Arts
• Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington)
• Indianapolis Museum of Art
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Musée d'art moderne (Troyes)
• Musée de l'Annonciade (Saint-Tropez)
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
• Musée des Impressionnismes (Giverny)
• Musée d'Orsay
• Musée Lambinet (Versailles)
• Museum of Grenoble
• New Art Gallery (Walsall, England)
• Palazzo Ruspoli (Rome)
• Portland Museum of Art (Maine)
• Princeton University Art Museum
• Saint Louis Art Museum (Missouri)
• San Diego Museum of Art (California)
• Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid)
• Wallraf-Richartz Museum (Cologne, Germany)

References

• Bouin-Luce, Jean and Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris, Editions JBL, 1986-2005.
• Cazeau, Philippe, Maximilien Luce, Lausanne, Bibliothèque des arts, 1982.
• Clement, Russell T., Neo-impressionist painters, a sourcebook on Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, Théo Van Rysselberghe, Henri Edmond Cross, Charles Angrand, Maximilien Luce, and Albert Dubois-Pillet, Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1999.
• Fénéon, Fanny, Correspondance de Fanny & Félix Fénéon avec Maximilien Luce, illustrée par Luce de portraits originaux, Tusson, Charetnte, Du Lérot, 2001.
• Luce, Maximilien, Maximilien Luce, peindre la condition humaine, Paris, Somogy éditions d'art, 2000.
• Luce, Maximilien, Maximilien Luce, Palais des beaux-arts, [Charleroi] 29 octobre-4 decembre 1966, Charleroi, Palais des beaux-arts, 1966.
• Mantes-la-Jolie, Inspirations de bords de Seine, Maximilien Luce et les peintres de son époque, Paris, Somogy, 2004.

External links

• Maximilien Luce in ArtCyclopedia
• Maximilien Luce Page from the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia