Oil on panel Rue de Rouen - Gaston Laborde

Rue de Rouen painted by Gaston Laborde
Large oil on isorel
Executed with a knife
Very realistic
Superb perspective
Very luminous
d panel: 45.5 x 54.5 cm
with frame d : 59.5 x 68.5 cm
Biography:
Gaston Laborde was born in Paris in 1892. From the age of 12, he worked as a delivery boy and, thanks to friends, was able to benefit from the evening drawing classes offered by the City of Paris. He was awarded a bronze medal in 1910.
He married in 1921 and moved to Montmartre. After a successful exhibition, he moved to Trouville. The Laborde family ran a color store.
From 1925 to 1930, he set up his easel all over the region, most often on the quays of Trouville and at Les Roches Noires. On Sundays, he went as far as Rouen, Le Havre, Honfleur, Lisieux...
In 1931, he decided to join his twin brother in Talmontiers on the banks of the Epte. The Epte is Pissaro's home in Eragny, Monet's in Giverny.
Gaston Laborde used almost exclusively the technique of painting with a knife. In Talmontiers, the trowel becomes lighter, in contrast to the previous period when it was more violent.
Exhibitions followed one another in Rouen, Evreux and Gisors. His reputation grew, and the painter's house was visited by enthusiasts from all over the world.
In June 1940, he decided to burn much of his work.
Some 30 paintings purchased by Monsieur Fouger and exhibited at Château de Trie were carried off in the invaders' luggage.
In Talmontiers from 1940 to 1959, he became depressed and stopped painting.
In 1959, he took up his equipment again to paint with his son Lucien.
Until his death in 1965, he painted flowers and landscapes around Talmontiers.
He never exhibited again.
The technique of these paintings is very homogeneous, always with a trowel on isorel but sometimes on canvas. They are undated and some are unsigned.

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