Lot n° 190
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François GALL
CHARMING BREAKFAST TABLE "LUNCH ON THE HERB OF THREE YOUNG WOMEN" by François GALL (1912-1987)
Oil on canvas signed and located in Paris lower left.
27 x 34,5 cm
François Gall, French surname of Gáll Ferenc, born on 22 March 1912 in Cluj-Napoca (Kingdom of Hungary, now Romania) and died on 9 December 1987 in Paris, is a French painter of Hungarian origin.
After having had Aurel Popp as his first master, he continued his artistic training in Rome at the Accademia di San Luca in the studio of Umberto Coromaldi, then entered the Collegium Hungaricum and travelled to Europe on an artistic scholarship.
The first exhibition of his works was organised by his home town in 1932, the second at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, where he presented his many social subjects.
Arriving in Paris in 1936, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in the studios of Charles Guérin and André Devambez. He met other artists such as Christian Bérard, Othon Friesz, André Derain and Pablo Picasso.
Back in Paris after the war, he resumed his artistic activities.
In 1947, the year of the bread crisis, his painting "Bread for the people", exhibited at the Salon des artistes français, was awarded the gold medal. Commented on by Pierre Bourdan, Minister of Youth, Arts and Letters, it was reproduced on the front page of all daily newspapers and art magazines. That year was also marked by his participation in a major group exhibition at the Debussy Gallery in Paris, in the company of Fernand Léger, André Lhote and Jean Lurçat, presented by Jean Cassou.
From the beginning of the 1950s, exhibitions and travels multiplied throughout France and the world, notably in Belgium and the United States, where the artist was also approached to play the role of Édouard Manet in films, but his participation in other exhibitions prevented him from doing so: La semaine française en Suède, where he became friends with Maurice Chevalier, whose sketches and portraits he produced.
An increasingly recognized artist, François Gall became a laureate of the Institut de France and his works were exhibited in France and abroad from the end of the 1960s onwards. They took him to Italy, Rome, Florence, Venice, Germany, Switzerland where he exhibited permanently in Bern, Neuchâtel and Bevaix, then to Corsica, Austria, Spain, Russia, Canada at Max Stern's Dominion Gallery.
Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, member of various commissions, in particular that of artists at the Ministry of Culture, and administrator of the ADAGP, he devotes himself wholeheartedly to the cause of artists in various associative activities.
François Gall's works are exhibited in Paris at Durand Ruel, Bernheim-Jeune, André Weil, the René Duckermann Foundation, Wally Findlay, in the provinces in Deauville, Trouville, at the Grenier à Sel in Honfleur, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Nice, Cannes etc. They are also kept in embassies, ministries and museums in the major capitals.
Elected vice-president of the Société des artistes indépendants in 1977, he became president of the Syndicat national des artistes peintres et sculpteurs professionnels in 1987, the year of his death.
The artist painted almost every subject, from the dark palette of social subjects, crucifixions and war, to the luminous palette of the bridges of Paris in all weathers, little known under the snow, landscapes, market scenes, ports and beaches, maternity wards, naked women or at the toilet, in the family, at the hairdresser's, women at the café, dancers, quays of the Seine, streets, boulevards, racing scenes, country bouquets at the compotiers.
"Among what is commonly known as the "Painters Witnesses of their Time", François Gall is particularly seductive by the distinguished delicacy of his paintings. »
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