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Louis Latapie was an important French painter born in 1891 in Toulouse. At a young age he moved to Paris, where he entered the Académie Julian in 1908 and studied with Sérusier at the Académie Ranson in 1909. Read the full biography

Louis Latapie was an important French painter born in 1891 in Toulouse. At a young age he moved to Paris, where he entered the Académie Julian in 1908 and studied with Sérusier at the Académie Ranson in 1909. He spent the entire First World War on the front. During the 1920s he exhibited with Villon and had a series of solo exhibitions at the famous Druet Gallery. During that time he became associated with Georges Braque and particularly Roger Bissière, a friendship that would be mutually beneficial and last for over forty years. With Bissière, Latapie held a major exhibition in New York in 1923. A rich retrospective of his works was held at the Salon d'Automne as early as 1936. In 1941 he exhibited alongside Desnoyer, Estève, Fautrier, Lorjou, Pignon and Manessier.