Louis édouard Garrido, “the Cow”

Louis-Édouard GARRIDO (1893-1982) Cow study. Oil on panel signed lower right. Label and annotation on the back 1943. Dimensions: 36 x 26 cm with frame / 32 x 22 cm without frame. Son of the painter of Spanish origin Eduardo Leon Garrido (1856-1906), whose works the Saint-Maur-des-Fossés museum preserves, Louis-Édouard Garrido is a post-impressionist painter who attached himself to the Basse- Normandy. His oils on canvas or hardboard depict both rural and marine subjects: peasant scenes of the Caen plain, apple trees in flower in the Pays d'Auge, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Port-en-Bessin, etc. Eduardo-Léon Garrido arrived in Paris in 1875, then settled in La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire. In 1892 he married Léonie Beck (one of his models), who gave birth to their first child, Louis-Edouard, on July 1, 1893. Director of the School of Fine Arts in Caen, his students were the painters Jack Mutel or the Virois Louis-Henry Lemirre (1929-2000). President of the Bas-Norman Artists from 1936 to 1972, painter but also draftsman and lithographer, his beautifully crafted work is that of a continuation of the impressionist lesson, abundant and talented, but without stylistic originality compared to his great elders, Monet , Pissarro or Sisley. In 1934, Louis-Édouard Garrido was appointed curator of the Caen Museum of Fine Arts. From 1936 to 1939, he undertook a new hanging of the museum rooms and improved the lighting of the works. A “Louis-Édouard Garrido space” today commemorates his work in the Caen district of Venoix. A collection of his and his father's works is visible at the Charles Léandre museum located in the commune of Condé-en-Normandie (more precisely in the former commune of Condé-sur-Noireau). Works The Pilgrims of Emmaüs, Saint-Gerbold de Venoix church Roman road in Vieux, 1952, Caen Museum of Fine Arts The Port of Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, private collection; Still life with currants; Self-portrait with hat; Cows in the meadow; Saint-Vaast, lively port; Port of Marseille.