Pierre-gaston Rigaud (1874-1939) Bordeaux Painter. Flowers

Still life with flowers by Pierre-Gaston Rigaud (1874-1939) Bordeaux painter., oil on panel signed lower left carved wooden frame, format with frame 58x50cm. Pierre-Gaston Rigaud (born August 4, 1874 in Bordeaux from a family originally from Saint-Morillon and died June 27, 1939 in Paris) is a French post-impressionist painter. He is the son of Arnaud Rigaud, a marine blacksmith and Jeanne Adélie Lafourcade. After being a student at the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts in 1894, he was a student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1895 to 1898 in the studios of Léon Bonnat, Gustave Moreau and Albert Maignan. In 1905, he married Madeleine Filippi (1878-1976), in Saint-Germain-du-Corbéis near Alençon and they had two children: Geneviève Rigaud (1906-1982). She married the journalist and caricaturist André Caza, born André Cazaumayou, (1911-2003). He is the grandfather of the comic strip artist and science fiction illustrator Caza. Jean Rigaud (1912-1999) painter of the Navy. He married Françoise, a sister of André Caza. He was a founding member of the Society of Friends of Cathedrals in 1912 with Beltrand, Jammes, Paul Jamot, Charles Tournemire, Maurice Denis, George Desvallières, Louis Rouart. The association aims to "make known Christian art in whatever form it manifests itself: philosophy, music, architecture, sculpture, painting" (visit, musical audition, conference). He trained in his studio on Boulevard Pereire: Maurice Martin (painter) and Paul Anderbouhr. Among his friends and acquaintances are the painters Jacques-Émile Blanche, Maurice Denis, Willem van Hasselt, Hubert-Denis Etcheverry, William Didier-Pouget, Vergeaud, Henri-Achille Zo, Jacques Beltrand, René Ménard, Maurice Chabas and Paul Chabas, the musicians Charles Tournemire (godfather of his son Jean), Ermend Bonnal, Lucien Capet, and the poets Francis Eon and Francis Jammes. Pierre-Gaston Rigaud is buried in Bordeaux.