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A painter and a draughtsman, Jacques Boussard (1915-1989) belongs to the trend of the École de Paris ‒ School of Paris.

Born in Touraine (France) in 1915, he paints from his early years under Rodigue’s direction, his high school teacher and former pupil of Gustave Moreau.

He attends the Académie Ranson and is educated in Roger Bissière’s atelier. At the mere age of 21, he exhibits his paintings in Max Kaganovitch’s galery and achieves first successes. The renowned Parisian collector thereafter becomes his exclusive art dealer.

Jacques Boussard, an artist of profound culture and broad interests, creates his own style in the tradition of the École de Paris, combining the rigour of cubist compositions with the sensitivity of Fauvist colours. His themes of choice are portraits, still-life, landscapes and, in the last years of his life – models.

Each of Boussard’s painting maintains a limpid, rigorous composition, an equilibrium of means which gives his artworks an elegant and sober harmony, in line with French painting.

Until 1968 he exhibits regularly in France and in Europe, among others at Galerie Charpentier (Peintres témoins de leur temps), Galerie Durand-Ruel (Boussard, Laprade, Bouché), Salon des Tuileries, Salon d’Automne, Salon des Artistes honflerais, as well as in Basel, Belgrade, Bourges, Bruges, London, Menton, Mulhouse, Offenbach-am-Main and Turin.

Boussard’s paintings have been acquired by the city of Paris, state institutions and French and foreign collectors.

 “I rather believe in the poetry of daily life than in the imagination, the fantastic, the extraordinary.”