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Pierre-Paul Jouve (Marlotte, Seine-et-Marne, 16 March 1878 – Paris, 13 May 1973) was a French painter, sculptor Lynne Thornton Les Africanistes: peintres voyageurs, 1860-1960 1990 and illustrator. He was notable for his paintings and sculptures of Africa's animals.Félix Marcilhac, Pierre-Paul Jouve. Peintre sculpteur animalier, Les Éditions de l’Amateur, 450 p., 98 €, He was first recipient of the Abd-el-Tif prize in 1907, and later of the Prix d'Indochine in 1921.
For the Universal Exhibition of 1900, the architect Binet, commissioned a frieze of wild animals of more than 100m representing tigers, bears, lions, bulls, and mouflons. This frieze will be executed in greenish brown glazed flamed sandstone by the sculptor Alexandre Bigot. Binet also ordered four lions from him to decorate the main gate of the Champs Elysees, between the two palaces, and a monumental statue representing a rooster wings outstretched in the center of the gate.
In 1907, Jouve was awarded a scholarship from the General Government of Algeria, and along with Léon Cauvy he was the first resident of Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers. The Contemporary Book Society commissioned him to illustrate Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, which was not published until 1919.
Winner of the General Government of Indochina travel grant, he is preparing a major trip to the Far East. In 1922, at the end of the summer, painter on a mission representing France, he embarked in Marseille, for a long journey of eleven months which will lead him successively to Indochina, China, Ceylon, then to India. He will stay in Angkor for nearly three months, fascinated by the beauty and grandeur of the site. He will bring back from this trip hundreds of studies which will serve him among other things to illustrate, Le Pellerin d'Angkor by Pierre Loti.Paul JOUVE (1878-1973)
Pierre Loti’s A Pilgrim from Angkor, 1930.
Edited by Paul Jouve and F L Schmied, in Paris.
Illustrations by Jouve, wood engraving by F.L Schmied
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