Gisele Ferrandier : " Landscape To Gerone"

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Gisèle Ferrandier de Laprade (1909-1990) “Terrains à Girona” oil on canvas 65 X 92 cm, mounted in a Parnassian frame 80 X 107 cm.
With its marked furrows, its use of complementary colors, this beautiful painting dates from a period when she gradually simplified reality to bend it to her own vision.
Circa 1950.
The title is given to us by an archive photo.
Close to those artists who were called "of poetic reality" or "The children of Matisse", such Brianchon, Oudot, Cavaillès, Planson or Legueult whose works she owned, she was never officially part of the group and theirs. exhibitions, perhaps a victim of being a woman (a handicap in the art world at the time and sometimes even today!) and especially of her many trips, from which she brought back many paintings whose style gradually evolved from 'a "classic" 1930 with abstraction through these blazes of color serving for example his landscapes of Morocco, Spain or the South or on his dazzling still lifes.
Her works are present in many museums and major collections and she was crowned with a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris in 1970.
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