Philippe Veyrin (1900 - 1962) “view Of Ixtassou - Basque Country” Oil On Cardboard 33 X 26 Cm

Philippe VEYRIN (1900 - 1962) "View of Ixtassou" Oil on cardboard signed lower left H: 33.0 cm x L: 26 cm Philippe Veyrin, born January 9, 1900 in Lyon and died in Urrugne on January 2, 1962, is a French painter, historian and bascologist. Biography: After the death of his mother, Philippe Veyrin left at the age of two for Saint-Jean-de-Luz. Due to health problems, he abandoned his university studies but became a scholar bascophile. A recognized painter of the 1920s, he is among the founders of the Basque Museum and the history of Bayonne. He presented his works at numerous group exhibitions, such as the Salon des Indépendants in 1927 in Paris, where the State purchased one of his best-known works: “La Nive à Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry”. He exhibited his paintings at the Maison Labadie in Bayonne in 1930, at the Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris, at the Musée Basque in Bayonne with Pablo Tillac in 1931, in Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1932, and finally at the Musée Basque with Elizaga in 1933, and again in the following years. Basque historiography would also take an important step forward with his work. His most notable historical work is “Les basques de Labourd, de Soule et de Basse-Navarre, leur histoire et leurs traditions”, published by the Musée Basque in 1942 and reissued several times. Philippe Veyrin expresses a romantic scientific spirit and essentialist explanations that mark an advance in Basque historiography. A street in Biarritz, the old path of Lake Mourisot, was renamed in his honor on June 12, 1967.