Émile Schuffenecker, born in 1851 in Paris, is a French painter of the post-impressionist movement. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he met artists such as Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard, who had a significant influence on his work.

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His artistic style evolves over time. His early works were influenced by realism, but fascinated by light and color, he quickly adopted Impressionist techniques and ideas. Under the influence of Gauguin and Japanese art, he later developed a distinctive style that combined impressionism with elements of symbolism and synthetism.

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Schuffenecker was an active member of the avant-garde art scene: he participated in several important exhibitions, in particular the Impressionist exhibitions as early as 1874. He organized the first exhibition of Impressionist and Symbolist Painters in 1889, where he presented his own works as well as those of his contemporaries, including Gauguin, Van Gogh and Redon. This exhibition marks a turning point in the history of French art, highlighting artists who were previously unknown.

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Today, Schuffenecker's works are held in numerous public and private collections around the world, including the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Museum of Modern Art in the City of Paris.

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