Georges Dargouge "market Scene In Brittany"

Georges Edmond Dargouge was born on March 27, 1897, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris and died on May 5, 1990, in Boulogne-Billancourt. A student of Fernand Cormon, Charles Fouqueray, Ferdinand Humbert, and Pierre Laurens, he produced landscapes, seascapes, portraits, genre scenes, and nudes. A drawing professor at the École Polytechnique, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1920 onward, winning a bronze medal in 1924 and a silver medal in 1929, the year he presented his painting "Les Fumées d'Aubusson" (The Smoke of Aubusson). He won the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1924. In 1967, he was awarded the Thérèse Aubin-Mounier Prize at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in Paris.