| Art in Brittany |
| George Nicolas Fourrier |
| Alias Géo-Fourrier |
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George Nicolas Fourrier - Geo-Fourrier
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George Nicolas Fourrier - Pardon de Concarneau
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starts to be interested in arts of Japan during a long disease between
1914 and 1917. In 1921, at the National School of Decorative Arts in
Paris, it côtoie of many known artists: Mathurin Méheut, Jean-Julien
Lemordant, Charles Fouqueray, of the writers Parcelled out Pierre,
Anatole Braz, Charles Goffic, etc... |
 George Nicolas Fourrier - Fisherman of Guilvinec
receives several prices of which certain consecutive with voyages in
Africa. It settles in Quimper at the beginning of the Twenties. It
works at Henriot. It côtoie R. Y. Creston, Robert Micheau-Vernez, J E
Sevellec, etc.
Between 1933 and 1939, it produces 23 series of illustrations to the
stencil key set in a format 9 X 14 for small pockets of postcards. It
also carried out some of these images out of stencil key set with the
format 15 X 23, and very little of them with the format 20 |
 George Nicolas Fourrier - Vieille femme de Plouhinec
its works, it obtained a gold medal to the international exhibition of
1937.
Géo-Fourrier published 5 small pockets of illustrations on Brittany:
Armor, Breiz Gwechall, Breiz A Bardon, Breiz Izel and the superb
series, Paotred Mor. It published also series on Normandy, Flandres and
Artois, the Pyrenees, Provence, Alsace, the Limousin, Auvergne, the
Alps and Savoy and finally a series on Morocco.
These illustrations represent a top of its work in terms of simplicity,
composition, modernism and of daring use of the colors. They crossed
the end of the century in an astonishing state of freshness. Sought a
long time by a growing number of collectors, they are finally available
today in republication to various formats. |
| PS : PS: Reproductions are available At ASIA editor - to see the bond in top of page |
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