"We can say that towards the beginning of the twentieth century, B.-J. Artigue in the company of Emile Bernard, Henri Martin, Seurat, Signac, was part, of the forty main French artists received in the whole world, an artist among the most outstanding of his time." (René Rouquier, poet).

He was a student of Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. Then he worked mainly in the Toulouse region.

He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français since 1895 and received a mention in 1903.
He also appeared at the Salon des Indépendants a few years before the First World War, when he exhibited in Russia, at the request, it is said, of the empress