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Lucien René Mignon is a French painter, illustrator, lithographer and pastellist, who was one of the first pupils and disciples of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He was born in 1865 in Château-Gontier-Sur-Mayenne in France. He paints genre scenes, nudes, portraits, landscapes, still lifes flowers and fruits. He began his drawing studies in Angers before coming to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a student of Gérôme.
He appeared in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants and the Société Natione des Beaux-Arts from 1910. He won the Berton Prize in 1920. A sensitive artist, he was honored for many years by the friendship of Renoir, with whom he worked in Cagnes and which it resembles at the time of Renoir's so-called "ingresque" period. He wanted to "combine the color of the impressionists with the drawing of Ingres".
He died in 1944 in Vienna, Austria.
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