caption movement death_date death_place birth_place image_size nationality name field birth_date image article_title birth_name
pelotaris , 1912 cubism 14 march 1938 saint-valery-sur-somme bordeaux , france 220px french felix tobeen painting 20 july 1880 file on canvas , 147.5 x 115.5 cm , shown at : salon des indépendants 1912 , and moderni umeni , svu tobeen mánes , prague , 1914 . . jpg , 1912 , pelotaris , oil tobeen
 félix elie bonnet
tobeen

tobeen -lrb- bordeaux , july 20 , 1880 - saint-valery-sur-somme , march 1938 -rrb- is the pseudonym of the french artist félix elie bonnet .
tobeen stayed frequently in the western part of thé pyrenees , basque country , but was born and bred in bordeaux .
because of his frequent reference to basque subjects within his paintings he became known as a basque artist .
however , he was not a basque and neither were his parents .
from 1910 he worked in paris where he maintained relations with the group of pablo picasso and georges braque and with the group of the duchamp brothers -lrb- gaston , raymond and marcel -rrb- in puteaux .
he exhibited eleven works at the salon de la section d'or , galerie la boétie , paris , october 1912 .
but tobeen was not a city-dweller .
he loved a life of liberty , the sea , the woods and after 1920 he settled in saint-valery-sur-somme .
tobeen 's paintings , drawings and woodcarvings show the traces of his parisian period and his passion for the poetry in human life .
