Jean-Marie Toulgouat

JEAN-MARIE TOULGOUAT was born in Giverny, Eure in 1927, grandson of the pioneer American Post-Impressionist painter, Theodore Butler and Suzanne (neé Hoschedé), the daughter of Claude Monet's second wife Alice. Brought up in the Monet house still hung then with some of the great painter's last major works, Toulgouat went on to attend the Academy of Painting at Nice (1948-1949), where he lived with his great-aunt Blanche Hoschedé Monet, herself a painter and the companion of Claude Monet's old age.

From 1949 to 1950 Toulgouat studied architecture in Vernon, practicing in Paris for the next sixteen years with landscape architecture as his speciality. In 1966 he returned to Giverny to concentrate on his first love, painting. Since then he has held seventeen one-man exhibitions in France, Holland, the USA and Britain. In 1993 paintings by him were included in Art in Bloom: Flowers in historical and contemporary painting, Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery. He has been represented by Francis Kyle Gallery since 1984 and has held nine one-man exhibitions there, most recently in 2001.

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