Tobeen
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| Felix Tobeen | |
| Birth name | Félix Elie Bonnet |
| Born | July 20, 1880 Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, France |
| Died | March 14, 1938 (aged 57) |
| Nationality | French |
| Field | Painting |
| Movement | Cubism |
Tobeen (Bordeaux, July 20 1880 - Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme, March 1938) is the pseudonym of the Basque artist Félix Elie Bonnet.
Because his father was a native of the French Basque country, Tobeen stayed always much in the western part of the Pyrenees. Since 1910 he worked in Paris where he maintained relations with the group of Pablo Picasso and George Braque and with the group of the Duchamp brothers (Gaston, Raymond and Marcel) in Puteaux where the first Section d'or exposition was organized. But Tobeen was not a city-dweller. He loved a life of liberty, the sea, the woods and after 1920 he settled in Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme. Tobeen's paintings, drawings and woodcarvings show the traces of his Parisian period and his passion for the poetry in human life.
[edit] Exhibitions
- Galerie La Boétie (Paris): La Section d'or (1912)
- Armory Show (New York) 1913
[edit] List of Museums with paintings of Tobeen
The Netherlands
- Centraal Museum, Utrecht
- Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek
- Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
France
- Musée Basque, Bayonne
- Musée des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
- Musées Menton, collection Wakefield, Menton
- Musée des Beaux Arts de Nancy, Nancy
