Louis Edouard Garrido, “female Nude From Behind”

Female nude from behind. Oil on panel, signed lower right. The work is in perfect condition. Front frame in good condition, small wear on the sides, see detail photo. Dimensions: 22 x 27 cm without frame / 35 x 40 cm with frame. Louis Edouard GARRIDO painter Son of the painter of Spanish origin Eduardo Leon Garrido (1856-1906), whose works the Saint-Maur-des-Fossés museum preserves, Louis-Édouard Garrido is a post-impressionist painter who attached in Lower Normandy. His oils on canvas or hardboard depict both rural and marine subjects: peasant scenes of the Caen plain, apple trees in flower in the Pays d'Auge, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Port-en-Bessin, etc. Eduardo-Léon Garrido arrived in Paris in 1875, then settled in La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire. In 1892 he married Léonie Beck (one of his models), who gave birth to their first child, Louis-Edouard, on July 1, 1893. Director of the School of Fine Arts in Caen, his students were the painters Jack Mutel or the Virois Louis-Henry Lemirre (1929-2000). President of the Bas-Norman Artists from 1936 to 1972, painter but also designer and lithographer, his beautifully crafted work is that of a continuation of the Impressionist lesson, abundant and talented, but without stylistic originality compared to his great elders, Monet , Pissarro or Sisley. In 1934, Louis-Édouard Garrido was appointed curator of the Caen Museum of Fine Arts. From 1936 to 1939, he undertook a new hanging of the museum rooms and improved the lighting of the works. A “Louis-Édouard Garrido space” today commemorates his work in the Caen district of Venoix. A collection of his and his father's works is visible at the Charles Léandre museum located in the commune of Condé-en-Normandie (more precisely in the former commune of Condé-sur-Noireau). Works The Pilgrims of Emmaüs, Saint-Gerbold de Venoix church Roman road in Vieux, 1952, Caen Museum of Fine Arts The Port of Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, private collection; Still life with currants; Self-portrait with hat; Cows in the meadow; Saint-Vaast, lively port; Port of Marseille.