Gustave Bourgogne (1888-1968) - Landscape Near Saint-malo

Gustave Bourgogne (1888-1968)
Landscape near Saint-Malo

Charcoal and gouache,
12 x 20 cm

Signed and located

Provenance
Private collection, Paris

Gustave Bourgogne was a French painter born in 1888 in Veigné, Indre-et-Loire, and died in Paris in 1968. He distinguished himself with his landscapes, still lifes and genre scenes, sensitively capturing the light and atmosphere of the places he depicted. In 1932, alongside Henri Valensi, Charles Blanc-Gatti and Vittorio Straquadanini, Bourgogne co-founded the musicalist movement, seeking to create a correspondence between painting and music, by translating rhythms and sound harmonies into pictorial compositions.

In the artistic context of the time, Bourgogne moved among contemporaries such as Henri Valensi, with whom he shared an innovative vision of art, integrating musical concepts into their works. The musicalist movement, although less known than other currents, reflects a period of experimentation and research into the correspondences between the arts.