13 Facts About Robert Deborne

Robert Deborne focused on painting landscapes of Viviers and the surrounding countryside as well as Nebbio, in Corsica.

Robert Deborne's father was a wealthy landowner and this provided him with the financial security to concentrate on painting.

Robert Deborne attended school in Lyon before marrying and moving to Meudon, Paris in 1900.

Robert Deborne died in his studio in Ardeche on July 27,1944, at the age of 74.

Robert Deborne mostly painted scenes of Viviers, his home town on the Rhone, and its surrounding areas.

Robert Deborne's works are very much centered on the places that he loved.

Robert Deborne returned to the same landscapes again and again to depict the variations in time, weather and season.

Robert Deborne exhibited at the Salon d'Automne between 1905 and 1927 and was accepted as a member of the Salon d'Automne 1923.

Robert Deborne was inspired by the work of Cezanne, and he exhibited with Cezanne on at least two occasions: in the 1905 Salon d'Automne.

Robert Deborne exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1905, the year when the press coined the then rather disparaging term of Fauves to describe artists using strong, separate, unnatural colours in a representational manner, moving away from the realism of impressionism.

The phrase stuck and the new movement of Fauvism was recognised, of which Robert Deborne was certainly a part and influenced by.

In 1928, the President of the Salon des Independants asked Robert Deborne to find housing in Bourg-Saint-Andeol, and then in Viviers for Paul Signac.

Signac and Robert Deborne went on to exhibit together on several occasions at the Salon du Sud-Est.