Andre Meriel Bussy "young Girl In Bigoudène Outfit" Brittany

André Mériel-Bussy, born January 11, 1902 in Fougères (Ille-et-Vilaine) and died October 29, 1984 in Ploudalmézeau (Finistère), is a French painter and engraver. Son of Henri-Adolphe Mériel-Bussy and Nanine Félicie Reine Marie Le Marc'Hadour, André Mériel-Bussy is the first cousin of the Breton lyric singer Yvon Le Marc' Hadour and the watercolorist and etcher Henri-Jules Barjou. In 1919, André Mériel-Bussy became a student at the Regional School of Fine Arts in Rennes and then enrolled at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris from 1924. There, he joined the studio of the painter Lucien Simon. He received the Chenavard Prize in 1926 and the gold medal of the Society of French Artists awarded at the 1939 Salon. He married a woman from Brest originally from Ploudalmézeau, a region where the couple would settle. A frequent exhibitor in Brest, a retrospective was dedicated to him at the Brest School of Fine Arts, as well as at the Raub Gallery in Brest. In 1981, holding a paintbrush became painful for him and, in 1983, tired, he contented himself with retouching unfinished works. A street bears his name in Ploudalmézeau.