Henri Martin | Post-Impressionist painter | Part.2

French painter🎨 Henri Jean Guillaume Martin (1860-1943) was an Post-impressionist painter trained at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jules Joseph Garipuy (1817-1893) - the Director at the Toulouse Museum and a Beaux-Arts Academy professor.

The first painting showing his new technique was Fête de la Fédération, exhibited in 1889, which earned him a gold medal.

Martin was commissioned in 1895 to decorate several rooms of the new Paris town hall for which he was awarded🎨* the Medal of the Légion d’Honneur, the highest honor that can be awarded to a civilian.

Martin was also awarded🎨 a major prize at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris and decorated the capitol building in Toulouse.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Henri Martin see:

• Henri Martin | Post-Impressionist painter🎨