Édouard-Henri Avril belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Édouard-Henri Avril as French painter (1849-1928).
Édouard-Henri Avril was born at Algiers in 1849. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter and illustrator.
Among his best-known works are De figuris Veneris and Gamiani. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour (1871).
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Édouard-Henri Avril died in 1928, aged 79. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1871
- Notable work: De figuris Veneris
- Notable work: Gamiani
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