Drawing Of A Woman From Quimper By Georges Géo-fourrier

Ink and pencil drawing. Titled "Kemper" and dated 1930. Artist's monogram. Dimensions at sight 19 x 24 cm and with frame 42 x 46.5 cm.

Georges Géo-Fourrier (1898-1966): Lyonnais raised in Paris, he contracted 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 marked for life by the after-effects of his illness, he followed the courses of Mr Keller at the Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs in Paris between 1921 and 23. Based in Quimper from 1928, Georges Géo-Fourrier went there working actively for over thirty years. At the same time engraver, designer, book illustrator, decorator, photographer and ceramist frequenting the 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 wore a painter's and ethnologist's look around him and it is the soul of a country that emerges from his work. He also made several trips to Africa in the 1930s which inspired his ceramics, drawings, watercolors and photographs.