Paul Sérusier was born in 1864 in Paris into a well-to-do middle-class family. His father was a successful businessman in the perfume industry, who gave his son a good education. In 1875 Paul entered the Condorcet Lycée, where he studied classical philosophy, Greek and Latin, and the sciences. He graduated from the Lycée in 1883 with two baccaulaureats – in philosophy and in the sciences.
1888. Oil on wood. 27 x 21.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
1890. Oil on canvas. 60 x 45 cm. Private collection.
1890. Oil on canvas. 92 x 73 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
c.1891. Oil on canvas. 73 x 60 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
c.1891. Oil on canvas, triptych. 73 x 133 cm. Private collection.
c.1891-92. Oil on canvas. 91.5 x 72 cm. Musee des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, France.
1892. Oil on canvas. 71.5 x 92 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
1893. Oil on canvas. 73.5 x 53.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
c.1895. Oil on canvas. 91.5 x 53.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
1908. Oil on canvas. 100.5 x 139.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
1908. Oil on canvas. 100 x 162 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
Gauguin and the Nabis: Prophets of Modernism by Arthur Ellridge. Terrail, 1995.
The Nabis: Bonnard, Vuillard and Their Circle by Claire Freches-Thory (Author), Antoine Terrasse (Author). Flammarion, 2003.
The Nabis and the Parisian Avant-Garde by Patricia Eckert Boyer (Editor), Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Elizabeth Prelinger. Rutgers University Press, 1988.
The Nabis and Their Period by Charles Chassé. Lund Humphries, 1969.