Georges Gobo (1876-1958), Market Scene In Douarnenez

Georges Gobo (1876-1958) Market scene in Douarnenez, Place du Grand port (?) Oil on canvas signed lower right 55.5 x 46 cm Dimension with frame: 55 x 64 cm Magnificent work of the Breton school by American artist Georges Gobo. A painting borrowed from a beautiful light to be put in relation with a work of the Museum of Fine Arts of Quimper (see last photo). The work seems to have been made in the same period, use of the same colors, construction of the plans, tight framing, we even find the central character who holds the child in the two works ... think that the work was made between 1930 and 1940 as indicated by the museum in its file. Georges Gobo very young loses his father, he returns to France to settle in Angoulême with his family. He will be apprenticed to a lithographer, it is at this time that he is passionate about lithography, drawing and painting. He later moved to Angers and became a member of the Société des Amis des Arts which invited him to exhibit his first works at his Salon of 1900. Subsequently, Gobo traveled abroad to Belgium, the Netherlands. Bas, Italy, Germany, Spain and Morocco. There he painted canvases or sketches of everyday life (Venice Market) and landscapes that he then reproduced on copper. However, it is in France between his residences of Douarnenez in Brittany and that of Angers in Anjou that he finds his artistic inspiration. His work is very much appreciated in many museums around the world, both at the Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes, Quimper and in the Brooklyn Museum in New York.