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Gaston Balande BIOGRAPHY
1880 Madrid, Spain - 1971. Known for: Landscape, seascape, portrait, nude and allegory painting.
Gaston Balande was a painter, watercolourist, and illustrator of a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, portraits, nudes and allegorical subjects. Though born in Madrid he lived the... Read full biography
Gaston Balande was a painter, watercolourist, and illustrator of a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, portraits, nudes and allegorical subjects. Though born in Madrid he lived the majority of his life in northern France and Paris before taking a position as curator of the Musee des... Read full biography
Gaston Balande was a painter, watercolourist, and illustrator of a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, portraits, nudes and allegorical subjects. Though born in Madrid he lived the majority of his life in northern France and Paris before taking a position as curator of the Musee des Beaux Arts in LA Rochelle. At the turn of the century, and after the first World War, in what is considered his "dark" period, he painted scenes of social realism with a sombre palette. A trip to Belgium,... Read full biography
Gaston Balande was a painter, watercolourist, and illustrator of a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, portraits, nudes and allegorical subjects. Though born in Madrid he lived the majority of his life in northern France and Paris before taking a position as curator of the Musee des Beaux Arts in LA Rochelle. At the turn of the century, and after the first World War, in what is considered his "dark" period, he painted scenes of social realism with a sombre palette. A trip to Belgium, Spain and Italy in 1912 changed the course and the sombre colours were replaced with a freshened palette and a refined Post-Impressionist style. From 1945, he devoted himself to painting landscapes and florals and portraits, with book illustrations... Read full biography
Gaston Balande was a painter, watercolourist, and illustrator of a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, portraits, nudes and allegorical subjects. Though born in Madrid he lived the majority of his life in northern France and Paris before taking a position as curator of the Musee des Beaux Arts in LA Rochelle. At the turn of the century, and after the first World War, in what is considered his "dark" period, he painted scenes of social realism with a sombre palette. A trip to Belgium, Spain and Italy in 1912 changed the course and the sombre colours were replaced with a freshened palette and a refined Post-Impressionist style. From 1945, he devoted himself to painting landscapes and florals and portraits, with book illustrations and tapestry design also part of his efforts. In France he was an exhibitor at the Salon des... Read full biography
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Gaston Balande was a painter, watercolourist, and illustrator of a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, portraits, nudes and allegorical subjects. Though born in Madrid he lived the majority of his life in northern France and Paris before taking a position as curator of the Musee des Beaux Arts in LA Rochelle.
At the turn of the century, and after the first World War, in what is considered his "dark" period, he painted scenes of social realism with a sombre palette.
A trip to Belgium, Spain and Italy in 1912 changed the course and the sombre colours were replaced with a freshened palette and a refined Post-Impressionist style. From 1945, he devoted himself to painting landscapes and flo...But wait, there's more...
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