Edouard Debourg (1880-1939) Gargilesse And Collonges Or Uzerche. Crozant School, Osterlind

2 superb watercolors by Edouard Debourg representing a view of Gargilesse + a view of Corrèze (Collonges or Uzerche), both signed. Size of each watercolor 47x63cm In very good condition, delivered without frame for the moment. I offer them at 1300€ for 2 or 700€ each. These are indeed two magnificent watercolors by Edouard Debourg, the first represents a view of Gargilesse and the second a view of Corrèze, I think Collonges la rouge or Uzerche. Watercolor will be an emblematic technique for Edouard Debourg, he will produce many of them, always powerful with cubist tendencies. Most will represent views of Gargilesse and its surroundings, but also views of Corrèze, Brittany or Provence. Go see my other ads because I offer about ten of them all coming from the artist's descendants. Debourg is one of the emblematic painters of the Crozant school and even more precisely of the Gargilesse group of which he was a member with his friends Anders Osterlind, Marcel Coucy, André Villeboeuf and Claude Chéreau. His work is also very often compared with that of his friends Anders Osterlind and Marcel Coucy. Edouard Bourgeois known as Debourg was born in Versailles in 1880 and died in Gargilesse in 1939. He began by attending the Beaux Arts courses in Paris where he met Emile Othon Friesz with whom he became friends, which later led him to meet other painters who frequented the Creuse valley such as Detroy, Osterlind or Guillaumin. In 1900 he participated in the Universal Exhibition in Paris, in 1913 he exhibited at the Salons d'Automne and the Artistes Français and this until 1938. In 1917 during a trip to Gargilesse and the Creuse valley he met the Osterlind clan with whom he became friends, a few years later they even became members of the same family through their respective wives. In 1920 he acquired a house in La Billardière near Gargilesse where he stayed until the end of his life. From there he rubbed shoulders with all his artist friends mentioned above. In 1921 he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and this until 1938. He worked in Brussels and exhibited with Anders Osterlind at the Manteau gallery. From 1923 he discovered Corrèze where he painted many pictures and drawings, especially in the area around Uzerche, Argentat, Collonges and Beaulieu. He spent the winter of 1924 in Brittany near Concerneau and decided to go and meet the painters of Pont-Aven and the Académie Ranson. In 1925 he exhibited a lot, especially in Paris, at the Druet, Granoff, Chappe galleries, etc. In 1931 he exhibited with his friends Belle, Coucy, Detroy, Villeboeuf, Jamet, Joseph, Othon-Friesz... in the Excelsior room on the Champs Elysées for the exhibition "The Painters of the Creuse Valley". Between 1934 and 1936 he participated in the decoration of the ceiling of the Rex cinema. In 1937 he opened a studio on rue des Sablons in Paris and in 1939 he died in Gargilesse. There will be many post-mortem exhibitions, notably in Orléans and Limoges, and several sales of part of his studio in Orléans. He is now one of the 10 best painters of the Crozant school.