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Oil on canvas signed Louis Garin * representing a marine landscape with small boats and boats docked and some pretty houses on Ile aux Moines in the Gulf of Morbihan (Brittany), vintage twentieth century.
This table is in very good condition and is of high quality. It is very decorative. Signed lower right.
A note: tiny time wear on the frame, see photos.
We put a second painting of this artist for sale on this site.
Exhibitor of the National Society of Fine Arts, this artist as well in his work as in the folk works that he illustrated is only a singer of Brittany, of which various museums preserve works. (extract from Bénézit)
Morbihan occupies an important place in the artistic production of Louis Garin. He discovered the region on the advice of his friend Octave-Louis Aubert (director of the magazine La Bretagne Touristique) in 1922. Seduced by Ile-aux-Moines, he stayed first at the hotel and then rented before to acquire, a few years later, a house that becomes the resort of the whole family. 1922 also marks his first participation at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts in Paris with the presentation of his painting entitled Month of Mary. The following year, the Burial at Penmarc'h was a great success. His rather atypical training allows him to qualify him as an almost self-taught artist. Coming from a modest background, Louis Garin is forced to leave school as soon as he gets his brevet de études to work with his father at the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer. Later, his taste for the arts and his drawing facilities encouraged him to take evening classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. Married and father, he works the day and manages to paint in the evening and during his days off. It was only in 1935, when he ordered the decoration of the Sainte-Thérèse church in Rennes, that he quit his job as a railway worker to work entirely on painting. His career is remarkable for his quality and diversity. In fact, in addition to the easel paintings, the artist has made ceramics for the Manufacture HB in Quimper and for the faïenceries of Sarreguemines. He also illustrated the magazine La Bretagne Touristique, the newspapers Ouest-Éclair and La Vie Rennaise as well as many books including the famous Chanson du cidre by Frédéric Le Guyader and Tryphina Keranglaz by Anatole Le Braz. He is also known for his production of posters and box decorations (Galettes Saint Michel in Saint Michel Chef-Chef, Galettes le Huédé in Batz-sur-Mer and Comptoir Breton in Rennes). The complete study of the subjects represented by Louis Garin makes it possible to designate him as the painter of Brittany. The vision he offers is fundamentally optimistic, his Brittany is alive and shimmering. Except for the region of Penmarc'h where he goes especially to paint landscapes and bigoudens, the places he represents are directly linked to his places of residence. (extract meeting of the Société Polymatique Morbihan, December 2001)
Artist very well side on ArtPrice.
