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Lot 166: Girard, Andre (French, 1901-1968) Girl in Interior - Oil Painting

Est: $300 USD - $500 USDSold:
Myers Fine ArtSt. Petersburg, FL, USMarch 13, 2016

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Girard, Andre (French, 1901-1968) Oil Painting. "Girl in Interior." Oil on canvas. Signed upper right An. Girard. In good condition. Measures 10 inches x 16 inches. Frame measures 15 inches x 21 inches. From the Sag Harbor, NY estate of New York author Barbara Wersba.

Andre Girard was a French painter, poster-maker and Resistance worker. During the Second World War he founded and headed the CARTE network, also taking "Carte" as his personal codename. He was the eldest child born to a pair of brewers and attended the ?cole des Beaux-Arts before doing military service at Saint-Cyr. He became a painter, studying with Roualt and Bonnard, as well as a caricaturist and theatre set designer.He was known as one of the best publicity poster designers in Paris during the 1930s. He set himself up in Venice in 1936-37 and in Manhattan in 1938. In New York, he produced several religious paintings (Stations of the Cross, Apocalypse, etc.) and in 1952 he decorated several churches in New York, Vermont, and California. In 1947 he published Peut-on dire la v?rit? sur la R?sistance, in which he presented several important corrections to B?nouville's book Le Sacrifice du matin. He died and was buried in America in 1968. From Artistinwar: In 1941, Girard's attention also turned to depictions of Christ, when he showed his small scaled paintings of the Way of the Cross in Cannes. His solo show in November-December 1944 at New York's Bignou Gallery featured two rooms. In one was his series of small paintings on The Fourteen Stations of the Cross and, in another room, flowers and landscapes of France. Praised for his use of color and light, Girard's compositions contained strong graphic elements, high contrasts and a rich use of pigment. According to the catalogue, "his work became more solemn and more moving that ever before. It is a fact that the paintings produced during the years of German oppression bear not only the marks of revolt, but even more, those of prayer." Twelve years later, he recalled that when he arrived in New York from England in 1944: " I used to have in my pockets notebooks full of versions of the Stations of the Cross--so much so that when I was sent to America in 1944, I had only with me these pictures. When my art dealer proposed to exhibit them, I was astonished. Such a distressing subject, such a limited number of pictures!" His wartime experience found expression through sacred art, and became a new point of departure for his images.After the war, Girard never returned to drawing political caricatures for the press; instead he opted to make sacred and secular art. He worked in an impressionist style akin to Pierre Bonnard, one of his two teachers whose shattering of light into gemlike points Girard learned to employ. The other was Georges Rouault. Girard shared Rouault's use of heavily outlined bodies, but differed by rendering them as angular and bony forms. Ultimately, Girard's Jesus is born of crisis, a figure that has seen the limits of human fallibility. He is marked by the austerity of war, yet radiates light. St Ann Chapel's architect Vincent Raney designed a modern church, which features a series of angled panels that line one side, allowing light to penetrate the space indirectly. Girard drew his sketches for the Stations of the Cross on the plaster surface of the panels. Next, the final images were painted on canvas and mounted on the fourteen panels. He donated a series of 14 ink sketches to Stanford University. The Fourteen Stations of the Cross has its complement in the four stained glass windows at St. Ann Chapel, which are dedicated to the teachings and story of Jesus. Rather than go with traditional methods of stained glass panels, he instead painted directly on the glass. In his correspondence with his patron, Clare Boothe Luce, Girard outlines his reasoning for choosing these methods. Luce financed the chapel's building as a memorial to her daughter. For her, this project intended to signal that even in the US, there

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Fine Art - Paintings, Prints, Sculpture, Photographs, Works on Paper and Artist Books.

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March 13, 2016, 12:00 PM EST

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