Collection: Art prints by Henri Lebasque

Henri Lebasque was a French painter and one of the most important representatives of Post-Impressionism, who was often close to the Nabis group without formally belonging to it. He began his artistic training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angers and later continued it in Paris, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, among others. He came into contact with modern French painting early on and developed a strong interest in color and light.

Lebasque quickly turned away from strict academic painting and found his way to a bright, harmonious pictorial language. Influenced by artists such as Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, he concentrated on intimate everyday scenes, interiors, portraits and depictions of family, leisure and landscape. He frequently depicted women and children in quiet, light-flooded rooms or outdoors.

An important phase of his work began with his stays in the south of France, particularly on the Côte d'Azur. The Mediterranean light led to an even more luminous color palette and an increasingly free, flowing brushwork. Lebasque's paintings convey an atmosphere of calm, warmth and joie de vivre, with color serving less to describe than to express mood.

In addition to panel painting, Lebasque was also active as a muralist and received public commissions. During his lifetime, he was recognized and regularly represented at exhibitions. Today, Henri Lebasque is regarded as a sensitive colorist and poetic painter of light, whose work represents an important link between Impressionism, Nabi art and classical modernism.