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André Lhote (1885-1962) was a French painter, art critic and Cubist teacher. The artist combined the aesthetics of Cubism with the brilliant palette of Post-Impressionism by depicting landscapes, nudes and still lifes. Read the full biography

André Lhote (1885-1962) was a French painter, art critic and Cubist teacher. The artist combined the aesthetics of Cubism with the brilliant palette of Post-Impressionism by depicting landscapes, nudes and still lifes. Born in Bordeaux in 1885 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, initially influenced by the works of Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne. Lhote later fell into the influential Parisian milieu known as the Section d'Or, which included Marcel Duchamp, Jean Metzinger, and the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. His major works during this period include Cordes (1912) and The Gates of Bordeaux (1914). After World War I, Lhote began contributing articles to the Nouvelle Revue Française and founded his own school of painting, instructing artists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Margaret LaFranc. He received many honors including the Grand Prix National de Peinture in 1955 and in 1957 the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris hosted a solo exhibition of his work. He died in 1962 in Paris. To date, Lhote's works are included in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Albertina in Vienna.1