Oil On Cardboard, Still Life By Georges Laporte

LAPORTE Georges (1926-2000)

French landscape painter, illustrator. Born in Montmartre to a taxi driver father, he studied international business
Between 1946 and 1949, he worked as a clerk, then a customs agent.

He exhibited for the first time in Paris, at the Salon des Surindépendants, in 1946.1948; then from 1951, he appeared at the Salon des Indépendants et des artistes Français, where he obtained the Bastien-Lepage prize, in 1958.
He showed his works in numerous personal exhibitions, since the first in 1958 in Lyon, in Paris, Algiers, Lille, Geneva, Zurich, Brussels, Montreal, Frankfurt-on-Main...
In 1963, he executed two stained glass windows for the college of higher education in Chalon-sur-Saône. During his travels in Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, he painted from nature. He illustrated with lithographs La Garlande des dunes by Verhaeren, Les Châteaux de sable by Armand Lanoux, Les Poèmes saturniens by Verlaine.

Essentially a painter of landscapes, his skilful writing to the point of virtuosity recreates light and atmosphere, sometimes reminiscent of Vlaminck in rural drama.