Return From Fair To Quimper By Georges Geo-fourrier - Brittany

Charcoal and pastel signed, titled and dated 1930 bottom right. Dimensions without frame at sight 24 x 20 cm, with frame 47 x 37 cm.

Georges Géo-fourrier (1898-1966). A Lyonnais raised in Paris, he contracted a purulent pneumonia at the age of 16 which forced him to lie down for 4 years. He devotes this period of inactivity to drawing and reading. Recovered but nevertheless scarred for life by the consequences of his illness, he took lessons from Mr Keller at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris between 1921 and 23. Fixed in Quimper from 1928, Georges Géo-Fourrier went there actively working for more than thirty years. At the same time engraver, draftsman, book illustrator, decorator, photographer and ceramist frequenting Quimper earthenware factories. Geoges Géo-Fourrier collaborated with the Henriot earthenware factories from 1924 to 1950 then at the Grande Maison from 1950 to 1966. Close to his contemporaries Mathurin Méheut, Lucien Simon and Jean-Julien Lemordant, who like him particularly loved the Bigouden country, he wears a painter and ethnologist's gaze around him and it is the soul of a country that emerges from his work. He will also make several trips to Africa in the 1930s which will inspire him with ceramics, drawings, watercolors and photographs.