son of a Limoges politician
Ecoles des Arts Décoratifs in Limoges; Académie Julian (1886-88, Paris)
1888 – meets Paul Sérusier at Académie Julian
1890 - co-founder of the Nabis; the Nabis met regularly in Ranson’s apartment
1908 – opens Académie Ranson as a Nabis school with his wife, France. Maurice Denis and Sérusier teach there
Nabi Landscape, 1890 (private collection)
Spring, 1896 (tapestry, Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
The Bath, 1906 (Musée d'Orsay)
See also Paul Sérusier, Portrait of Paul Ranson as a Nabi, 1890 (Musée d'Orsay)
Bitker, Brigitte Ranson. Paul Ranson, 1861-1909: catalogue raisonné. Paris: Somogy, 1999 (in French)
Chassé, Charles. The Nabis and Their Period, Michael Bullock, trans. London: Lund Humphries, 1969
Mauner, George L. The Nabis: Their History and Their Art, 1888-1896. New York: Garland, 1967
Ranson, Paul. Paul Elie Ranson: du symbolisme à l’art nouveau. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Somogy, 1997 (in French)