This month we are delighted to share a selection of remarkable paintings by celebrated Spanish, French, and British artists. Though shaped by different landscapes and cultures, each painting reflects a shared pursuit of light, emotion, and modern expression, just as in the artwork pictured above by Emilio Grau Sala, La leçon de piano, Paris, 1938.
Adolphe Louis Gaussen
Vue de bord de mer à Saint-Jean-cap Ferrat
Oil on panel: 32 cm x 40 cm
Framed size: 45 cm x 53 cm
Georges Damin
Place Bellecour à Lyon
Mixed media on canvas: 36 cm x 70 cm
Framed size: 41 cm x 75 cm
Signed
Artist of the Month
Frederick Gore CBE RA (1913-2009)
British painter, teacher, and writer, Frederick Gore CBE RA was born in Richmond, Surrey, and was the son of the artist Spencer Gore. He studied at Trinity College and Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, 1932-4, and finally at Westminster School of Art and Slade School of Fine Art, 1934-7. In the last year of his studies he had his first one man show at the Redfern Gallery, followed by a series there after World War II. In 1938 he travelled to Greece, showing the resulting work in Paris. Greece, Majorca and France were favourite landscape subjects for Gore, whose rich palette had more in common with the French tradition as opposed to that of the English.
Pictured: Les Baux. A cornfield, Mausanne, 1954, oil on canvas: 61 cm x 81 cm (framed size: 86 cm x 106 cm), signed.
