Gilbert Galland
The unloading of oranges in the port of Marseille, a vivid scene captured by Gilbert Galland. A painting bathed in sunlight, with a light, lively touch.
Dimensions: 22 x 27.5 cm
With frame: 30 x 35 cm
SOLD
In the port of Marseille,
Gilbert Galland used to live in Marseille, and his watercolor and oil paintings depict the city’s many facets, especially its old port. Our painting is typical of his favorite subject: he loved to paint boats, harbors and lively scenes.
A talent for color and a light, lively touch.
Gilbert Galland uses his talent as a watercolorist to the benefit of oil. His oil touch is light and airy, with the lightness of watercolor.
He skilfully captured the luminosity of the scene, bathed in Mediterranean sunshine.
Biography
Gilbert Galland was born Paul Numa Gilbert Galland in Lyon 5e, and died in Saint-Eugène (today Bologhine in Algeria), a French Orientalist painter and watercolorist.
In Algiers in 1889, Gilbert Galland was a pupil of Hippolyte Dubois, a painter from Nantes who was director of the Beaux-Arts d’Alger from 1885 to 1909. With his teacher, he was one of the founders of the Société des artistes orientalistes algériens in 1897. He exhibits at the Société des Beaux-Arts in Algiers and also in Paris, where he shows watercolors of Brittany, Marseille, the Far East and Algeria.
He is a friend of Gabriel Darbeda, architect and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Algiers.
Gilbert Galland was appointed painter to the French Navy in 1900. The same year, he took part in the decoration of the Le Train bleu restaurant at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, with La Vallée du Rummel for the Tunisian salon, and Vue d’Alger for the Algerian salon.
With Maxime Noiré, he travels to Bou-Saâda, the oasis town nicknamed “The City of Happiness”, to record views in preparation for the Algerian diorama at the 1900 Universal Exhibition.
He also painted views of Jerusalem and decorated many liners for the shipping companies.
Works in public collections
– Paris, Gare de Lyon, Le Train bleu restaurant: murals.
Bibliography
– Gérald Schurr ” Les petits maitres de la peinture 1820-1920 ” ( The small masters of painting 1820-1920 )
– Adrian M. Darmon, Around Jewish Art, Chatou, Carnot, 2003,
– Collective, Le Train Bleu, Edt Presse Lois Unis Service, Paris, 1990,
– Marion Vidal-Bué, Alger et ses peintres, 1830-1960, Paris, Paris- Méditerranée, 2000.
– Emmanuel Vitte, Catalogue des artistes lyonnais du Salon d’Automne au Palais Municipal des Expositions Quai de Bondy à Lyon ; 103 p. in-12°
– Collective, Mémoire Vive revue du Centre d’Histoire de l’Algérie ; in 2002 no 17 on Gilbert Galland
