French painter, printmaker, and graphic artist. Segonzac studied at the Free Academy of Luc-Olivier Merson and found the academic style stifling. After a period of military service, he attended Academie de La Palette under Jacques Emile Blanche. In 1906, he launched his as artistic career independently from his masters, and in 1908, he submitted his works to the Salon d’Automne and to the Salon des Independants in the following year. He became member of Section d’Or shortly thereafter and was one of the modernists included in the Armory Show in New York in 1913. He was drafted in WWI, during which he published and exhibited a number of war drawings. In 1919, he learned etching and published etchings to illustrate the The Wooden Crosses, by Rolad Dorgeles, and later the Georgics of Virgil. Oil paintings reflect his admiration of Courbet and Cezanne and painted landscapes, still lives, and nudes.
