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Pierre-Paul Jouve (Marlotte, Seine-et-Marne, 16 March 1878 - Paris, 13 May 1973) was a French painter and sculptor.^[1] He was notable for his paintings and sculptures of Africa's animals.^[2][3] He was first recipient of the Prix Abd-el-Tif in 1907, and later of the Prix d'Indochine in 1921. Member of the Academy of Fine Arts, he is the son of the painter and photographer Auguste Jouve.

Biography

Paul Jouve was two years old when his father set up his ceramist workshop on Boulevard Saint Jacques in Paris. It is in this artistic universe that he grew up playing with colors, modeling the earth, pampered by his young mother, who dreamed of making a teacher of her. Very early on, his father, seeing his passion for drawing, encouraged him, introduced him to the Jardin des Plantes, where he developed a passion for the big cats that he practiced drawing.

When he was thirteen his father enrolled him in the School of Decorative Arts, where he remained there for only a year, little motivated by academic exercises. He took lessons at the School of Fine Arts on rue Bonaparte as a "free student", but he still preferred to draw from nature. To perfect his anatomical knowledge, he draws at the natural history museum. At the same time, he was introduced to printmaking and lithography in the studio of lithographer Henry Patrice Dillon.

Paul Jouve was only sixteen years old when he exhibited for the first time at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, and then took part in this exhibition of Fine Arts every year.

Jouve will be interested very early in the different reproduction techniques, and will keep his life during a boundless admiration for the Flemish engravers, whose works he will see and re-examine in museums, on each of his trips to Holland, and to Germany.

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. From 1902, he exhibited regularly, bronzes, porcelains, and drawings at Bing in their "Art Nouveau" gallery. The financial support of Bing, collectors and dealers specializing in Oriental Antiquities, allows him to regularly visit the most beautiful zoos in Europe. In 1904 he stayed in Hamburg, this city impressed him with its diversity and the life of its port. Then it will be Antwerp and his meeting with Rembrandt Bugatti which he greatly appreciates, the two artists will forge a real friendship, which will last until Bugatti's tragic end.

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 would not be published until 1919. Jouve was mobilized in August 1914 and left for the front, he knew the trenches and the mud. He was named Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1920.

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 Lotti.

In 1925, he obtained the gold medal of the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts where he exhibited in the pavilion of applied arts a decorative panel, moreover it is present in various other pavilions, at Fontaine where he exhibits a door hammer , and in many stands of decorators, who present his prints.

At the beginning of 1931, he left for a trip of several months in Africa, to finally get to know the country of the Tuareg. He will bring back from this trip, superb evocations of the Tuareg and He will illustrate The Book of the Bush by René Maran, using the drawings made in the African countries crossed.

At the beginning of the year 1934 in Egypt, Host of Mohamed Helmi Pasha, guided by Charles Terrasse, who will devote a biographical book to him in 1948, He visits Luxor, Aswan, Karnak, the valley of the kings, the Cairo museum, and works at the zoo which has an impressive collection of animals.

The year 1935 saw the launch of Normandie, Jouve produced two large canvases for the first class correspondence lounge: "Royal Tigers and Sacred Elephants of Hue".

Paul Jouve
Born	16/03/1878 Bourron-Marlotte
Died	13/05/1973 Paris
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Painter, Sculptor,Illustrator
Website	https://www.pauljouve.com

In 1936 he received the order for large decorative panels for the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies and for the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Technology, on this occasion, he also created the monumental bull's head in gilded bronze, which is always found in front of the Trocadéro basins, and which earned him the gold medal of the exhibition.

On February 7, 1945, he was appointed member of the Academy of Fine Arts. It illustrates the work of Balzac, "a passion in the desert" which will be released in 1948,  then Le Roman de Renard, after the adaptation by Maurice Genevoix, and the book "Chasse" by the Duke of Brissac. In 1956 he went to the United States, then to Bermuda where he spent the summer of 1956, fascinated by fish from the coral reefs of the large aquarium. He will bring back from this last trip, a quantity of drawings and studies, which on return, in his Parisian studio, will allow him to compose the very beautiful screen "Fish", today in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts of Reims.

Gallery

Illustrations

• Le Livre de la jungle, de Rudyard Kipling, 1919, et Le Second livre de la jungle. Paris, Éditions de la Société du Livre contemporain, 1929.
• Fables de Jean de La Fontaine, Lausanne, Éditions Gonin et C^ie, 1929.
• La Chasse de Kaa, de Rudyard Kipling, Paris, édité par Javal et Bourdeaux, 1930.
• Un Pèlerin d'Angkor, de Pierre Loti, Paris, édité par Paul Jouve et F.L. Schmied, 1930.
• Poèmes Barbares, de Leconte de Lisle, Lausanne, Éditions Gonin et C^ie, 1931.
• Paradis Terrestres, de Colette, Lausanne, Éditions Gonin et C^ie, 1932.
• La comédie des animaux qu'on dit sauvages, d'André Demaison, Éditions Rombaldi, 1950.

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References

External links

• Paul Jouve in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website

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