Georges Lacombe is a twentieth-century artist. He was born in 1868 into a wealthy family from Versailles. His parents gave him a strict religious upbringing, combined with an education in the arts from his painter mother. In 1893, Lacombe joined the Nabi movement. He was greatly inspired by Paul Gauguin's paintings of Tahiti. Sheltered from financial worries by his marriage, Lacombe did not seek to sell his works. Instead, he exhibited them at the Salon des Indépendants. He occasionally teaches sculpture at the Académie Ranson in Paris. Georges Lacombe mainly produced wood sculptures, such as Isis (c. 1895) or L'Existence (1894 - 1896), but also painted a few canvases, such as Automne, les Ramasseurs de noisettes (1894) or Marine bleue, Effet de vague (1893). He died of tuberculosis in 1916.