Fran%C3%A7ois Barraud
Barraud was the second eldest of four brothers who all painted or sculpted at various points in their lives. The brothers, Franois, Aim, Aurle and Charles, were largely selftaught artists having been raised as professional plasterers and house painters. Barraud attended evening classes at the local art school in 1911 together with his brothers. In 1919, he exhibited his paintings in La ChauxdeFonds and participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Basel. Encouraged by the success of the exhibitions he left Switzerland in 1922, and moved to Reims in France where he worked as a house painter for two years. He married Marie, a French woman, in 1924. Marie subsequently featured as a model in several of his paintings. Around 1924 or 1925, Barraud found work in Paris as an artist and craftsman. While living in Paris he studied painting at the cole du Louvre.
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