Ker-Xavier Roussel (10 December 1867 - 6 June 1944), French Nabis painter.
During his highschool years he met Edouard Vuillard, whose sister Marie he would marry in 1893. The two, together with Maurice Denis and Paul Serusier enrolled at the Academie Julian, but left the institution in 1890, dissapointed by the conservatorism of the school. Roussel will be a member of the Nabis and participated at several of the group’s exhibition, such as those at the Cafe Volpini in Paris. He used a style strongly influenced by the sinthetism of Serusier, with wide, flat surfaces, repeated colors and dark lines, trying to create a rhytm. Like the other Nabis artists he did more than just easel painting, producing several murals, stained glass and especially litographies. He also colaborated with Ambroise Vollard, who included some of Roussel’s litographies in his albums, published in Paris.
