Nationality:
french
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
1882
Birth Place:
Nantes
Death Date:
1933
Barbier was primarily a fashion artist. His early work was produced "...under the dazzle of the Ballet Russes of Serge Diaghilev; this electrifying influence on taste and fashion just before World War One extended to all the decorative arts...." , The Illustrated Book The Western Tradition, John Harthan (NY: Thames and Hudson, 1981), page 267.
Arrived in Paris in 1908 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and in the atelier of Jean-Paul Laurens.
