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Léon Pourtau (1872 – 4 July 1898) was a French painter and musician. At the age of 15, an apprentice typesetter, Pourtau left Bordeaux for Paris. He worked in a small restaurant on the Rue Lafayette, where musicians gathered Orchestre Lamoureux. Thanks to them gets a job as a concert clarinetist in a Café-chantant. He toured with a circus band where he would help set up the tent and bathe the elephants. Back in Paris he entered the Conservatoire de Paris. During this period he married, had two children, and become a professor at the Conservatoire de Lyon at the age of 22 – the youngest ever. He met George Seurat, himself also a musician, who taught him the impressionist technique. He took the opportunity of a concert tour in the US, which, after two years, earned him 20,000 Francs. At the annual exhibition of fine art held in Philadelphia over the winter of 1896–1897, he exhibited a painting, ''Quatre heures de l'après-midi'' (''Four o'clock in the afternoon''). This would be his only showing.〔Souren Melikian, "Unexpected masterpieces at Maastricht fair", ''International Herald Tribune'', 12 September 2006. (Article consulté en ligne le 27.04.08 ).〕 Returning to Le Havre, Pourtau boarded the SS ''La Bourgogne''. On 4 July 1898 she was sunk in collision in dense fog with the British sailing ship ''Cromartyshire'' off Sable Island (now belonging to Canada).〔210 US 95 ''George Deslions vs. La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique'', http://openjurist.org/210/us/95/george-deslions-v-la-compagnie-generale-transatlantique〕 The painter died in the accident. His works are now in the collections of several art museums including the Museo Soumaya, Mexico City and the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Image:Léon Pourteau - Lecture sous la lampe.jpg|''Lecture sous la lampe'' File:El anciano (Léon Pourtau) 01.jpg|''Le vieillard'' Image:Léon Pourteau - Sur la plage.jpg|''Sur la plage'' c.f. ''A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'' by Seurat Image:Léon Pourteau - Paysage provençal.jpg|''Paysage provençal'' Image:Pourteau Tropez.png|''St. Tropez'' Image:Pourtau Vallad.jpg|''Portrait de madame Vallad'' Image:Pourtau Soleil Couchant.jpg|''Solei Couchant'' Image:Pourteau Rue.jpg|''Rue de Village'' ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Léon Pourtau」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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