GOUACHE LES 3 AMAZONES GUY DAVID OCTOBER 4, 1953 GOLDEN FRAME (B327) Superb gouache by Guy david (1911 in Poitiers - 1980 in Nantes), the 3 amazons.You will notice the very beautiful technique as well as the many colors.The painting is dated and Hand signed by the artist.It is under glass and in a gilded frame, note wear, friction and jumps in gilding.The work is intact Frame dimensions: Height: 46cm Width: 52.5cm Thickness: 5.5cm View dimensions: Height : 29.5cmWidth: 36.5cmPainting / rebate dimensions: Height: 31.5cmWidth: 38cmS: 1BKC4Y3YGuy-DavidGuy-David, born December 20, 1911 in Poitiers and died August 25, 1980 (aged 68) in Nantes, son of Amédée David (1885 - 1978) and Denise Debisson (1892 - 1963), is a French painter, knight of the Legion of Honor.Biography [edit | modify the code] He married in second marriage Marie Droniou known as Nine (1914 - 2010) in Nantes on August 21, 1943.Guy-David always drew, from the age of 17 he made audience sketches at the court of Poitiers , from his Poitevin heritage he fell in love with Roman art, figurative painter then the cubist discipline lived there and he received the encouragement of the painters of the Gold Section and he befriended Fernand Léger, Jean Metzinger, Jacques Villonet later with Roger Bissière, Jean Bazaine, Edouard Pignon, Gabriel Robin, André Masson, the poets Yves Cosson, Paul Fort the prince of poets, René Guy Cadou the friend of Louifert and the school friend Jean Rousselot in 1949 during 'an exhibition at the la Boétie gallery in Paris he was noticed by Picasso for his painting "the lottes" secretary general and co-founder of the Friends of Art in Nantes he will be the artistic correspondent for the newspapers Art & Lettres, Presse Océan and in the Parisian magazines Le Peintre, Prisme des Arts and L'œil. He will be appointed expert in modern paintings nineteenth and twentieth century by the Commercial Court of Nantes.He will make three books on painting and his friend the Italian painter Orféo Tamburi will translate one into Italian: The appointment of painting of his study on the Apocalypse according to Saint John, will be born 63 paintings offered to the Nantes museum, a sound slide show with Pierre Ferré and a film with Michel Body and Father Emile Letertre. He will produce two murals the crucifixion and the resurrection at the Protestant temple of Nantes as well as the stained glass in collaboration with the master glassmaker Yves Dehais.It is present in many museums in France and abroad it will exhibit in Paris, Nantes, Baule-Escoublac, Bordeaux, La Bourboule, Casablanca, Rabat, New York, Brussels, Cardiff, Munich, Bonn etc., and since 1951 in many Italian cities where he will receive numerous distinctions gold medals in Baggutta Spotorno, Sassoferrato, Ferrara, silver medal of the city of Anco na, the Little Europe prize in Sassoferrato and the Biennale d'Art Sacré prize in Bologna, international painters' prize for painting the Matterhorn in Cervinia Breuil in 1961. recovered with difficulty and fell into a coma after a surgical intervention and died in the afternoon of August 25, 1980. He rests in the Mercy cemetery in Nantes. Please scroll the page, you will find below many photos of the item for sale. The photos are an integral part of the description. I remain at your disposal for any questions. Do not hesitate to contact me for any information