ArtistCheyssial

Artist Years1907-1997

Artist NationalityFrench

TitleBoy with Dog

Yearca.1970

MediumPainting > Oil

DimensionsCanvas: 17.5 X 15 inches

Accession NumberRC1860

NotesGeorges Robert Cheyssial (9 December 1907, Paris – 9 April 1997, Paris) was a French painter.

Georges Cheyssial was the son of Leon Cheyssial, co-director, and Marie Vallet, guardian of the Passage of Cairo. At the age of 14, he joined the École des Beaux Arts in Paris in the workshop of Jean-Pierre Laurens and Louis Roger. In 1929, he received the second prize in Rome for painting.

He won the Prix de Rome in 1932, with his work The Childhood of Jesus Christ[. In the same year, he married Marie Geneviève Fusillier in Malakoff.

He stayed at the Villa Medici in Rome between 1933 and 1937.

The Salon des Artistes Français granted him the Gold Medal in 1951.

He is a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, sitting in the Nono. 4 chair (elected on 5 March 1958, in the chair of Georges Paul Leroux). In the same year he received the Medal of Honor at the Salon des Artistes Français.

In 1962, he was a professor in charge of lectures at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

Cheyssial was a trustee of the Dufraine Foundation (Chars) in 1970. He chaired the Taylor Foundation from 1971 to 1995. In 1973, he was curator of the Henner Museum (Paris).
(source: wikipedia.org)