| (....) Mr. Gireud, among this generation of forty years of whom I was speaking earlier, - I thus designate it a little conventionally, no doubt but I think that I am understood and it corresponds moreover quite exactly to this generation of writers who took off after the war - Mr. Girieud is not one of those artists about whom firecrackers were fired. Mr. Girieud continued his effort, surrounded by the esteem of those who know what it is to work in painting, without fuss, both enamored of style and beautiful material. An undeniable success crowns his work today. His two sendings, two landscapes, one of which with figures, are among the very first classes of this fair, sensitive, executed with fervor and all borrowed from this nobility and this serenity particular to the artist. (....) |