Among the most prolific of the Neo-impressionists, Luce was the son of a Parisian railway clerk, and began his creative life as an apprentice xylographer, subsequently making woodcut prints for periodicals. His painting began in the Impressionist style, moving subsequently to Pointillism. As renowned for his anarchist activism as his art, Luce served time in prison in 1894, accused of involvement in the assassination of the President of France, although he was swiftly acquitted. Re-embracing Impressionism late in life, he left behind more than 2,000 oil paintings, and a comparable figure made up of watercolors, gouaches, pastels and drawings.
