Gilbert Galland (1870 - 1956) - Unloading Oranges In The Port Of Marseille.

In the port of Marseille, the unloading of oranges, a life scene taken from life by Gilbert Galland. A painting flooded with sunlight, with a lively and light touch.

Dimensions: 22 x 27.5 cm With frame: 30 x 35 cm

Gilbert Galland lived in Marseille; he retraced in watercolor and oil the thousand aspects of the city and especially the old port of Marseille. Our painting is characteristic of his favorite subject. He likes to paint boats, ports and lively scenes of life. Gilbert Galland here puts his talent as a watercolorist to the benefit of oil. His touch of oil is lively and has the lightness of watercolor. He was able to skillfully convey the luminosity of the scene, flooded with the Mediterranean sun.

Biography

Gilbert Galland was born Paul Numa Gilbert Galland in Lyon 5th, and died in Saint-Eugène (today Bologhine in Algeria), is a French orientalist painter and watercolorist. In Algiers, in 1889, Gilbert Galland was a student of Hippolyte Dubois, Nantes painter and director of the Fine Arts of Algiers from 1885 to 1909. With his teacher, he was one of the founders of the Society of Algerian Orientalist Artists in 1897. He exhibited at the Society of Fine Arts of Algiers and also in Paris, where he presented watercolors: views of Brittany, Marseille, the Far East and Algeria. He is a friend of Gabriel Darbeda, architect and professor at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers. Gilbert Galland was appointed painter of the Navy in 1900. The same year, he participated in the decoration of the restaurant Le Train bleu at the Gare de Lyon in Paris with La Vallée du Rummel for the Tunisian salon, and Vue d'Alger for the salon Algerian. With Maxime Noiré, he went to Bou-Saâda, an oasis town nicknamed "The City of Happiness", in order to record the views to prepare the Algerian diorama for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He also painted views of Jerusalem and will decorate many liners for shipping companies.

Works in public collections

• Paris, Gare de Lyon, Le Train bleu restaurant: mural paintings.

Bibliography

• Gérald Schurr “The little masters of painting 1820-1920”
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• Collective, Le Train Bleu, Edt Presse Lois Unis Service, Paris, 1990 ,
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• Emmanuel Vitte, Catalog of Lyon artists from the Salon d'Automne at the Palais Municipal des Expositions Quai de Bondy in Lyon; 103 p. in-12° • Collective, Living Memory review of the Algerian History Center; in 2002 no 17 on Gilbert Galland