His father want Heuze to be like him, a tailor. From its infancy Heuze has the idea of becoming a painter. The family left the district of Grenelle for the district of Montmartre (11 rue Custine), circa 1895. His parents put him to school in the rue Caulaincourt. His schoolteacher, father Farigoule, is the father of Jules Romain.

At thirteen, Edmond Heuzé and André Utter will paint in the Maquis. Rue Cortot, the two boys met Suzanne Valadon. Then he left the paternal home rue Custine; in the company of a young Russian sculptor Laxine, they settled in an attic, 8, rue Cortot. The adventure lasted two years until Laxine enters the Beaux-Arts in Cormon, then commits suicide.

Returning home, he learned tailoring and works at the Samaritaine, where he is fired, and took an apartment 58, rue Custine. Here he painted a portrait of Suzanne Valadon will be accepted at the Salon d'Automne. Nenesse then makes it into the Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge, with La Goulue, which allows him to survive and devote himself to painting for two years he danced and toured in Europe under the name of Williams.

1908, according Vauxelles he joined Victor Massé rue Berthe Weill, and is not impressed by Matisse or Marquet, but the kind Emilie Charmy. Later, en route to St. Petersburg, Heuzé became Curator of the Grand Duke Nicolas Nikolaevich, and remains there until the war of 1914. Back in Paris, he tried unsuccessfully to enlist in the army, eventually being accepted for a few months; returned to civilian life, to live he accepts small jobs, vendor or carrier at Les Halles, still painting.

In 1918, Heuzé meets Coquiot and serves as an intermediary for purchases of works by Picasso, Vlaminck and Valadon. Became artistic director of the gallery Sagot, Rue Laffitte, who organized a successful exhibition on the theme of "Masks". Then it becomes an antique dealer, steward at Saint-Palais, painter and decorator at Panzani & Nero.

In 1920, Heuzé exhibited at Bernheim with Asselin, Mouth, Charmy and Mainssieux. In 1923, he introduced his Daughters (joy) to the gallery Chiron. Therefore, Heuzé at make a living out of his works. With mime Farina, he discovered the world of circus Medrano, and this theme is his favorite subject, so that it follows the Travelers in various provincial tours.

In 1930, Cheron gallery presents works inspired by this theme. It crunches all the clowns at the time, Serato, Farina, Chocolate, Fratellini, Porto. Laureate of Paul Guillaume price in 1938, he found success, becoming a fashionable painter, and lives at 38 rue Ramey, 1941.

Heuze was appointed in 1951 professor of portraits at the Beaux-Arts, a vacant position since the death of Bonnat. He joined the Institute in 1948, joined the following year by JG Domergue, the two friends shocked their colleagues by their non-conformism. JP Crespelle says Heuzé was the inspirer of Francis Carco, who knew the Butte too late.

Towards the end of his life Heuzé went back to Utrillo, and attended the villa Vésinet, although his relationship with Lucie Valore be the most tumultuous. He attends the funeral of Maurice Utrillo, which for him is the end of a Montmartre he no longer recognizes. Today, more than his portraits brushed during sessions of two hours maximum, we search his scenes of clowns, and his views of Paris.

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