Francois Gall (1912 - 1987)
Francois Gall (1912-1987)
Trouville
Size: 24″ x 29″ (60 x 73cm)
Oil on canvas, signed
Provenance: Bonhams, London 12 March 1992 – lot 84
Provenance: Gorringes, Sussex 23 October 2007 – lot 2116
Price on application
Francois Gall (1912-1987) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rome from 1929 to 1930, and then at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1936. It was during this time in Paris that Gall changed his painting style as he became influenced by the French Impressionists and Post Impressionists. He exhibited many times in the Paris Salon and won many awards. His paintings can be seen today in museums in Paris, Auxerre, Versailles, Budapest and Vienna. For a biography see here.
Trouville, in the Calvados region of Normandy, is associated with numerous painters, especially during the second part of the XIXth century: Claude Monet, Eugène Boudin, Raoul Dufy, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, Fernand Léger, etc.