Project Description
Dimensions : 28 cm x 65 cm
Signed lower left : G. Chopard 1927
The Magpie Blue China 1927
Chopard Gaston Albert (Paris 1883-1942)
Painter, engraver and decorator.
He gave the best of himself in the art of woodcut, he worked with chisels and gouges large carpenter. The choice of these rather crude tools, allowed him to make prints with dominant black and white, simplified sculptural forms. his animals, particularly lions, dreams and bears, are defined following simple plans, a concise temperamental of each.
Member of the Salon d & rsquo; Automne, he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1921 and at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1927 at 1929 the paintings Boars, Daims (1927), Ours du Thibet (1928), Serpent and Coq bankiva.
He also participates in 1934-1935 at the Salon des Tuileries.
He died on at his home in the 5 arrondissement
In 1946, France illustration ask about him : “The art of the good Chopard engraver, silently disappeared in 1942, and whose profession should be noted, s & rsquo; apparent to that of the master glassmakers […]. Can we see in Gaston Chopard the precursor of a renaissance of imagery ? ».
The Museum of Modern Art in Paris keeps him : deer lying.
The National Salon of Animal Artists :
In 1931, the sculptor Pompon founded the "Group of Twelve»At the Jardin des Plantes, composed of Pompon, Jouve, Guyot, Baby doll, Chopard, Margat, Hilbert, Profillet, Saint Marceaux, Jouclard, Artus and Lemar, subsequently joined or replaced by Bigot, Bucy, Haseltine, Derain, Dufresne, Dufy,Dunoyer de Segonzac, Petersen, Roche, Tremont. The ex -‐ Galerie Brandt, taken over by Edouard -‐ Marcel Sandoz and renamed Galerie Malesherbes, in turn welcomes animal artists
Source : Benezit
Another animal work proposed by the Gallery
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