Agricole Louis Montagne biography

Agricole Louis Montagné (19 August 1879 - 12 February 1960; Avignon, France)

Born in Avignon, France, the very talented artist Montagné collaborated in 1900 with Paul Sain to decorate the restaurant Le Train bleu of the Gare de Lyon in Paris. He exhibited in Paris at the Salon d'automne in 1901 and was declared Exemplary in 1911 which earned him a travel grant.

Living in both Paris and at the castle Pontmartin in the village of Angles, he was a member of the influential artistic movement Group of Thirteen. Montagné was appointed director of the École des Beaux-Arts d'Avignon in 1920 and he was curator of the Villeneuve-lès-Avignon museum.

Montagné was appointed director of the School of Fine Arts of Avignon from 1920 to 1928 and curator of the museum of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon[. He illustrated by twenty watercolors the book of André Hallays, Avignon published in 1928 by Henri Babou. He heads several organizations such as the Committee for the Preservation of Sites and Monuments of Vaucluse, the Association of French Landscapers and the Association of French Watercolourists. He founded the Salon des dessin et de la peinture à la water.

Appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, he was made an Officer in 1932.

Montagné died in Paris in 1960.

See AGRICOLE LOUIS MONTAGNE ART.