François Desnoyer

He enrolled in l'École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1913 where he studied with Bourdelle. He later became a professor at that same school. Beginning in 1922, Desnoyer exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants, and Salon d'Automne. He exhibited the Salon des Artistes de ce Temps in the group Gromaire-Lipchitz. After the Second world War, he settled in Sète on the Mediterranean coast and also worked in Algiers. In 1952 he participated in the Venice Biennale with Fernand Léger and Raoul Dufy, and in 1962 established the ’Fondation Desnoyer’ at Saint-Cyprien near Perpignan as a centre for artists in residence and contemporary art exhibitions.