| ... Two landscapes by Girieud remind us of the importance of this painter, not only because of the real value of his work, but also because of the influence he had with the most notable artists of our time.
Pierre Girieud, who is from the Hautes Alpes, was brought to the Marseilles region as a teenager. He knew the fearless and harsh winters, the radiant summers. His friends, Parisian painters, well thought of a stay on the Coast, but it seemed to them reserved for the delicate winters, the precious tuberculous of Menton and Hyères, and especially at the time of the holidays, at the time when one does not exhibit, but where we work from early dawn to late night. The Midi seemed to them like a hot place that would sink the tubes and crack the colors.
It was thanks to the timid but convincing arguments of Girieud and then of Alfred Lombard, that the independent artists, until then faithful to the nymphs of the Seine, went down to Paris, one by one. Around 1905, Havrais Othon Friesz brought his palette and placed his frames on the edge of the Mediterranean; Matisse painted his large canvas: Calm, Luxury and Voluptuousness; Braque, Raoul Dufy, Derain, Vlaminck, believed that even after Cezanne there was still something to say about the favorite motifs of the Master of Aix... |