Louis Suire: oil on cardboard edge of the Seine date 1959Dimensions with frame: 42.5 x34cmDimensions of the painting: 34 x26 cm Louis Suire, born October 29, 1899 in Cognac and died January 18, 1987 in Lagord, was a painter and publisher French. Biography La Rochelle child from a bourgeois family, Louis Suire was able to take early drawing lessons under Louis Giraudeau. It is also thanks to the latter that he discovered in 1912 an Ile de Ré which was still wild and very reclusive. As soon as he fell under its spell, he decided to buy a house there one day. His talent allowed the artist to enter the Beaux-Arts in Paris. It was the time when he attended the Académie Julian, became friends with Paul Signac, Albert Marquet[1] and André Dunoyer de Segonzac[2]. After a short intermezzo forced by the First World War, he was able to return to La Rochelle where he quickly married, in 1923, his wife Hélène - his love since the age of 14. A year later their son Claude was born. Another five years later, in 1929, the Suire couple bought a house on the Île de Ré, in the village of Les Portes-en-Ré more precisely in La Rivière. This house later became the studio of the son and grandson of Louis Suire to name these two artists: Claude Suire and Olivier Suire-Verley. Still living in La Rochelle and having a pied-à-terre on the island, the Suire family, first as a couple and then with their son Claude, made many trips to the island serving as inspiration for the abundant work of the painter. . Brilliant jack-of-all-trades, Suire became a publisher by creating the house La Rose des Vents mainly dedicated to regionalism illustrated by his own hands. The Second World War hit his life harder and earned him two years of imprisonment in a labor camp in Germany. But he returned to his territory to continue his artistic work as well as his life as a Rochelais, Rhétais but above all as a husband and father. Louis Suire died in 1987, the same year as his wife Hélène.