Gaston Sebire (1920-2001)

Gaston Sébire (1920-2001) Official Painter of the Navy The Seine at Rouen in summer Oil on canvas 73 x 100 cm Gaston Sébire (1920-2001) Painter born August 18, 1920 in Saint-Samson in Calvados. Died in 2001. He was appointed Official Painter of the Navy in 1973. From 1936 to 1944 after his studies, Gaston Sébire worked at night at the Rouen post in order to devote himself to painting during the day. After settling in Paris in 1951, while remaining faithful to his Normandy, Gaston Sébire created in 1953 the costumes and sets for Cuevas' "Grey Angel". From the sixties, he regularly participated in group exhibitions: the Salon des Indépendant; the Salon d'Automne; the Comparisons Fair; the Salon of French Artists, Salon d'Angers. He also participated in various exhibitions of the School of Paris at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris between 1953 and 1961. In 1957 Gaston Sébire returned to Normandy, where he settled with his family. From 1965 he exhibited at Wally Findlay Galleries, in New York, Paris, and Chicago. Winner of the Critics' Prize in 1953, the Greenshields Prize in 1957, he won the Gold Medal at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1968. In 1991, the Maritime Museum pays tribute to Gaston Sébire throughout the summer. Museums: Paris: Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris