Aim : Contributing to a best knowledge of life and work of John Peter RUSSELL ( 1858-1930)

Born in Australia, he developped his art in France with Monet and Van Gogh. His wife Marianna Mattiocco was one of the favourite models of Auguste Rodin. John and Marianna spent twenty years of their life in the britton island of Belle-Ile-en-Mer. Russell made his most beautyfull paintings in Belle-Ile where he influenced the young Matisse.

After travels in Switzrerland, Italia and great-Britain, he went back in Sydney with his second wife Caroline De Witt-Merrill where he died in 1930. His work is now scattered. The most important collection, coming from the gift of the painter's daughter Jeanne to french State in 1948, is now exhibed at the Musée des Jacobins in the town of Morlaix, Brittany (France) thanks the action carried on by the Association John et Marianna Russell close to the French Government. Many other paintings are exhibed now in australian museums.

E-mail : contact@jemrussell.com
Phone : (33) (0)2 96 58 17 88

Consulter aussi le site : http://ecrivainsbretons.org

For more details on the painter, you can read :

Russell ou la lumière en héritage
by Claude-Guy Onfray
Office d'edition du livre d'histoire (Paris, 1995)