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Georges Laporte BIOGRAPHY
1926 - 2000. Known for: Painting.
Born in 1926 in Montmartre, Georges Laporte is a French painter. Laporte began his artistic career at the age of twenty, in a self-taught way, after having worked as a customs agent. He spent many... Read full biography
Born in 1926 in Montmartre, Georges Laporte is a French painter. Laporte began his artistic career at the age of twenty, in a self-taught way, after having worked as a customs agent. He spent many years in Burgundy, in the villages of Chalon and Givry, of which he painted many views. Subsequently,... Read full biography
Born in 1926 in Montmartre, Georges Laporte is a French painter. Laporte began his artistic career at the age of twenty, in a self-taught way, after having worked as a customs agent. He spent many years in Burgundy, in the villages of Chalon and Givry, of which he painted many views. Subsequently, he discovered Brittany and set up his workshop in Quiberon. Laporte's landscapes follow the artist's destinations, with a recurring motif, the sea. Over the years, his style progressed, evolved, and... Read full biography
Born in 1926 in Montmartre, Georges Laporte is a French painter. Laporte began his artistic career at the age of twenty, in a self-taught way, after having worked as a customs agent. He spent many years in Burgundy, in the villages of Chalon and Givry, of which he painted many views. Subsequently, he discovered Brittany and set up his workshop in Quiberon. Laporte's landscapes follow the artist's destinations, with a recurring motif, the sea. Over the years, his style progressed, evolved, and was refined. His layers of paintings become thicker. Commentators evoke Nicolas de Staël to deal with the gestural painting of Georges Laporte. When his wife died in 1979, he traveled more and more and his painting took on a new direction. The painter... Read full biography
Born in 1926 in Montmartre, Georges Laporte is a French painter. Laporte began his artistic career at the age of twenty, in a self-taught way, after having worked as a customs agent. He spent many years in Burgundy, in the villages of Chalon and Givry, of which he painted many views. Subsequently, he discovered Brittany and set up his workshop in Quiberon. Laporte's landscapes follow the artist's destinations, with a recurring motif, the sea. Over the years, his style progressed, evolved, and was refined. His layers of paintings become thicker. Commentators evoke Nicolas de Staël to deal with the gestural painting of Georges Laporte. When his wife died in 1979, he traveled more and more and his painting took on a new direction. The painter renews his painting and his colors. He travels in particular to Corsica and Japan. The success of Georges Laporte's... Read full biography
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Born in 1926 in Montmartre, Georges Laporte is a French painter.
Laporte began his artistic career at the age of twenty, in a self-taught way, after having worked as a customs agent. He spent many years in Burgundy, in the villages of Chalon and Givry, of which he painted many views. Subsequently, he discovered Brittany and set up his workshop in Quiberon.
Laporte's landscapes follow the artist's destinations, with a recurring motif, the sea. Over the years, his style progressed, evolved, and was refined. His layers of paintings become thicker.
Commentators evoke Nicolas de Staël to deal with the gestural painting of Georges Laporte.
When his wife died in 1979, he traveled more and more and his painting took on a new direction. The painter renews his painting and his colors. He travels in particular to Corsica and Japan. The success of Georges Laporte's works has never wavered. In 1958, he won the Bastien-Lepage Prize at the Salon des Artistes Français. The same year, one of his works won the City of Aix-en-Provence Prize out of 300 painters from all over France.
Artist Georges Laporte passed away in 2000.Biography from Blancs-Manteaux Auction (CLOSED)
Georges Laporte was born in December 1926 in Paris and died in 2000. He has become one of the greatest masters of our time (more than 50 museums in the world possess his works). His painting is passionate, realistic, timeless and sensitive. His paintings are in a palette of gray, white and blue with a fascinating range. Exhibitions include Japan, United States and across Europe.