him away from the solitude of his studio in the Dauphiné. Yet Bourgeois continued to paint, pursuing to his dying day an obsessive quest for light and transparency, as his landscapes of Drôme and the Dauphiné clearly show. A solitary personality but a talent fully acknowledged by critics and cherished by art lovers, Victor-Ferdinand Bourgeois died at Dieulefit on 6 October 1957. Works in public institutions La ville d’Amiens recevant les hommages de ses industriels, 1897. Town Hall, Amiens Chez les Chouans, 1902. Musée de Picardie, Amiens Lac Léman, 1908. Musée de Picardie, Amiens Exhibitions (non-exhaustive list) Exposition de pastels par Victor Bourgeois - 16–28 February 1909, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris Victor F. Bourgeois, Peintures & Pastels - 30 November – 31 December 1945, Salon d’Hiver, Palais de Tokyo, Paris French Naturalist Painters 1890-1950 - 12 June - 7 July 2012, The Fleming Collection, London References G.-M. Faure, Victor F. Bourgeois, Peintures & Pastels, Salon d’Hiver 1945, Palais de Tokio (sic), Paris, 30 November–31 December 1945, Paris: 1945. Exposition de pastels par Victor Bourgeois, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 16–28 February 1909, Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1909. Exposition d’un groupe de prix du Salon et boursiers de voyage, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, 30 May–15 June 1921, Paris: Galerie Berthe Weill, 1921. External links French Naturalist Painters 1890-1950 exhibition - 29 January - 16 February 2013, Galerie de l'Association des Amis de Gustave de Beaumont, Geneva 19th-century French painters 19th-century French male artists French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists 1870 births 1957 deaths Modern painters People from Amiens