Gabriel Deluc (1883 - 1916) "port Of Saint Jean De Luz 1904 - Basque Country" Hst Signed 45x55

Gabriel DELUC (Saint-Jean-de-Luz 1883 - Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus 1916) “The port of Saint-Jean-de-Luz” (1904) Oil on canvas signed and dated lower right H: 45.5 cm W: 55 cm Biography of Gabriel DELUC: Gabriel DELUC, born in 1883 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, was a student of Bonnat whose career began spectacularly between 1906 and 1914. But, engaged in the First World War, he disappeared in the trenches in September 1916. Admired by his peers, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes français, the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, in Biarritz, Bayonne and Saint-Jean-de-Luz, but also in Russia and the United States. He is considered the youngest member of the Bayonne School. Deeply attached to his native country, he is one of the creators of 20th-century "Basque painting." Some of Gabriel Deluc's works are currently unobtainable, but several postcards of the paintings exhibited at the Salons des Artistes Français exist. The last exhibition of his work took place in 2016 at the Guéthary Museum. It revealed a highly gifted artist, fascinated by color and form, between modernity and tradition, who left behind portraits, impressionist landscapes, and evocations of the Basque Country (a model for the next generation). Influenced by Symbolism, he was inspired by Ravel's theme of Daphnis and Chloe. The composer dedicated the Forlane from Le Tombeau de Couperin to him. Public collections: · Portrait of Charles Deluc, 1904, HST, 32.5 x 40.5 cm - Bayonne, Bonnat-Helleu Museum · Intimacy, 1906, HST, 135 x 230 cm - Bayonne, Bonnat-Helleu Museum · The Goatherd, 1908, HST, 143 x 322 cm - Saint Jean de Luz, Town Hall · The Dance, 1910, HST, 192 x 250 cm - Bayonne, Bonnat-Helleu Museum · The Lake, 1912, HST, 130 x 160 cm - Bayonne, Bonnat-Helleu Museum · Youth, 1913, HST, 155 x 302 cm - Paris, Orsay Museum · The Socoa Bridge, 1914, HST, 100 x 130 cm - Melun, Prefecture · Portrait of Madame Garrabé, HST - Bayonne, Basque Museum and History of Bayonne Bibliography: · Séverine Berger, The Basque Country seen by painters 1900-1950, Atlantica, Anglet, 2001. · Gilbert Desport, Directory of painters and sculptors of the Basque Country, Atlantica, 2002. · Michel de Jaureguiberry and Alexandre Hurel, A century of painting in the Basque Country, 1850-1950, Ed. Piments, 2006. · Michel de Jaureguiberry, Basque painting, selected works from public and private collections, Ed. Piments, 2009