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Portraitist (with focus on religious subjects), landscape painter, still life painter.

He trained at the Beaux Arts de Lyon and, at the age of 22, he took lessons from the painter Tony Tollet, before briefly joining the workshop of Gustave Moreau.

His presence at the salons of the Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts is almost continuous and he also obtains the "statut de hors-concours". The press then praised the quality of his painting, his applied and careful touch which serves so well the charm of his subjects: “Mr. Angéniol is also entitled to praise for his beautiful portrait of Mme F. and for her young woman reading. There is no claim to catch the eye of the viewer, and it is solely on their intrinsic merits that these works are recommended.” (Amaury, Le Salut Public, “Salon de la Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts”, 8 March 1914)

In Paris he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes français from 1901 to 1914.

He died on April 2, 1959 in Barcelona, Spain.

Angéniol's work can be read, in its apparent simplicity, as a painting of intimacy amplified by technical ability, quality drawing and a marked attention to colour.

His work can then be placed in the context of "intimate painting", which is the expression of the "inner life of things or beings, the life of silence - as opposed to the entirely external decorators and impressionists.

This intimacy is the underlying theme of Angéniol's work, which found its inspiration in the immediate proximity of places and models. He represents his wife and daughters, his privileged female models, in the simplicity of their daily activities: reading, sewing, piano lessons, finding interesting variations in the play of light to renew and exalt these women.

Not focusing on facial features but on attitude, Angéniol perfectly translates the feelings of these young women. It makes him a palette with clear contrasts of colors from which a general harmony emerges thanks to which the familiar and intimate atmosphere is shown in all its simplicity.

When he breaks away from the portrait to immerse himself in the landscape, Angéniol moves in a similar way. The places represented are those to which he is emotionally attached, whether it is the landscapes of his childhood in Verlieu or the southern light that he discovers in Giens. He paints them with the same sincerity and all his work carries with it this search for intimate painting: revealing the soul through his paintings.

Our gallery offers a selection of his works, which represent his wife and daughters, portrayed in domestic environments, focusing carefully on the loving relationship and skillfully capturing the play of light with warm and bright colours.

We also propose a selection of his landscape paintings, depicting glimpses of Sicily, in particular Taormina. Again, his works reveal his great ability to capture colors to enhance the subjects of the work of art.