Gustave Hervigo Boat In Dry Dock In Toulon

IN DRY DOCK 1960

Gustave HERVIGO
Large Charcoal painting
Signed lower left
Squadron escort in the dry dock basin with in the background a larger unit perhaps the cuirassier Jean Bart in the port of Toulon.

Dimensions:
80X54 cm visible
94X78 framed

Gustave HERVIGO
Rambouillet 1896/1993

Self-taught painter, he began a career in haute couture between the two wars but continued painting at the same time.

He exhibited at the Salon des Peintres Indépendants in Paris from 1925
He became a member of the Société National des Beaux-Arts in 1930

Hidden during the war because he was persecuted for his origins, it was after this that he devoted himself entirely to painting.

A tireless traveler, he traveled the world from 1948, eventually being invited aboard the helicopter carrier cruiser Jeanne D'Arc for a round-the-world trip in 1981.

He became an official painter of the Navy in 1963.
He was a member of the board of directors of the National Society of Fine Arts in 1977.

He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor for his work. Many French museums and ministries have works of his.
He bequeathed his studio funds to the town of Rambouillet in 1990.