A French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. He preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterised by a dreamlike quality and frequently cover intimate domestic scenes. The unusual vantage points of his compositions rely less on traditional modes of pictorial structure than voluptuous colour, poetic allusions and visual wit. Identified as a late practitioner of Impressionism in the early 20th century, he has since been recognised for his unique use of colour and his complex imagery.