son of a wealthy perfume and glove manufacturer
Lycée Condorcet in Paris; Académie Julian (1885–90)
1888 – receives honorable mention at the Paris Salon; meets Paul Gauguin at Pont-Aven; founder of the Nabis
1890s – designs sets, costumes and programs for the Nabis Théâtre d’Art and the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre; works in Brittany (Huelgoat and Châteauneuf-du-Faou)
1909 – professor at the Académie Ranson
1921 – publication of art theoretical writings as A B C de la peinture
Portrait of Paul Ranson as a Nabis, 1890 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Breton Eve, 1890 (Musée d'Orsay)
Washerwomen, 1892 (Musée d'Orsay)
Bathers in Whilte Clothes, 1908 (Musée d'Orsay)
Boyle-Turner, Caroline. Paul Sérusier. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1983
Boyle-Turner, Caroline.“Serusier’s Talisman,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 127, no. 1396-97 (May-June 1985): 191-6
Sérusier, Paul. ABC de la peinture. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1950 (in French)