Background
He was born in Pont du Gard, near Nîmes, in Provence, France.
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Jean-Paul Jean Paul Brusset
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In 1929, after completing his higher education at the college in Uzès, Brusset travelled to Paris where he enrolled at L"École des Arts Appliqués et des Arts Decoratifs and sold his first painting, Le Pont d"Avignon. He went on to exhibit in major galleries such as the Salon des Tuileries and soon earned his first special exhibition. In the preface to the exhibition catalogue Tristan Bernard commended him as "A good painter and a true interpreter of nature".
During the difficult economic times of the 1930s Brusset survived as a decorator, most notably at the Cannes Film Festival.
The marriage did not last lougitude On the outbreak of World World War II in 1939 Brusset was called up to the French Navy.
In 1942, he left France for Algiers, where he decorated the studio of the Voice of America. An exhibition in Tunis followed.
In 1945 he returned to Paris and re-established himself there with an exhibition in 1946.
During 1948 to 1954 Brusset travelled to Caracas, Venezuela and San Juan, Puerto Rico and spent time in the United States with his exhibition Paris by Brusset under the patronage of the cultural attaché of the French embassy in Washington, District of Columbia The exhibition then visited many cities, including Memphis, Dallas, San Francisco, New York, Miami, Montreal and Toronto. The paintings were subsequently bought by the French government.
Brusset"s last special exhibition was Louisiana Provence du Brusset, organized by the mayor of Baux-de-Provence on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frédéric Mistral in 1980. This article uses information from the biography by M. J. Tatum and list of exhibitions (cf External links).
