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85 - Édouard GOERG (1893-1969) La Gaîté Montparnasse, 1924-1925 O…
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Édouard GOERG (1893-1969) La Gaîté Montparnasse, 1924-1925 Oil on canvas, signed lower left. (Re-backed, repainted around the edges and in the lower middle). Height 81 cm; Width: 65 cm Provenance : - Former Maurice Garnier collection; - Private collection. Exhibitions: - Édouard Goerg Peintures et Dessins, Galerie B. Weill, Paris, 25 March-5 April 1925, no. 3; - Exhibition Édouard Goerg, Galerie du Centaure, 10 rue du Musée, Brussels, 16-27 January 1926, no. 2 ; - É. Goerg, Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 18 November-5 December 1948, no. 1; - Danse et divertissements, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1948-1949, n° 113 ; - Goerg ed. Sélection d'œuvres anciennes et récentes, Galerie Visconti, Paris, 2-24 June 1950, no. 1. Will appear in the catalogue raisonné of Édouard Goerg's painted work currently being prepared by Philippine Maréchaux and Francine Germak. Édouard Goerg, painter and engraver, born in 1893 in Sydney to French parents living in Australia, studied at the Académie Ranson until the outbreak of war in 1914. Having returned from the front shaken and revolted, the young artist wanted to try to move and change the world in his own way. He depicted the bourgeois society that had led them to war with cynicism and sarcasm. He stretched his models and caricatured the men, to make them eloquent, the physical deformation to reflect that of the soul. In the 1920s, Édouard Goerg exhibited in Paris at the Galerie Panardie, Berthe Weill and Georges Bernheim, in Brussels at the Galerie du Centaure and Paul Guillaume presented his work in London, New York, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. Around 1934, misery, social injustice and the rise of fascism in Europe inspired the artist to produce a series of works known as "fantastical", cruel and absurd in the image of the world around him, of which we present here three canvases: "Le parachutiste. Bonne Année", "La Guerre Civile" and "Heurs et Malheurs du paysan". Goerg's apocalyptic visions came to an end in 1939 when the threat of war became a reality and, in defiance of the occupiers, he painted carefree flower-women, as if life were beautiful... Expert : Élisabeth MARÉCHAUX-LAURENTIN & Philippine MARÉCHAUX | Cabinet MARÉCHAUX
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About the sale Modern drawings, paintings & sculptures - 20th century decorative arts & design
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Auction time 06/26/2026 at 2:00 PM
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