Paul camille guigou biography channel

Remnants of the some of the earliest known human settlements have been unearthed in southern France.    Provence is a travel agent's dream but many people have lived their entire lives under what writer Josephine Herbst called a "starched blue sky".  One of them was Paul-Camille Guigou (1834-1871), born at Villars and died at Vaucluse,

Guigou was a painter, one of many realists overlooked in the excitement of Impressionism.  And it is true that he lived in Paris for awhile from 1862, a necessity for establishing an artistic reputation.  It was not long after he became the drawing instructor to baroness de Rothschild in 1871, that Guigou died from a stroke at thirty-seven.  We have Roger Marx, a critic whose extremely broad tastes extended tto he avant-garde   Felicien Rops and the symobolist Odilon Redon, to thank for making a place at the Paris Universal Expositon of 1900 for Guigou's beautifully measured art.

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