Georges Gaudion
Key interwar Toulouse painter and illustrator
Georges Gaudion, born November 22, 1885 in Toulouse and died February 17, 1942 in Luchon-Superbagnères, was a chemist, musician, poet, but above all a painter and illustrator. He played a major role in the intellectual and artistic life of the Toulouse region during the inter-war period. Georges Gaudion was born in Toulouse, in his parents' apartment at no. 21 rue du Taur, opposite Notre-Dame du Taur church. He studied at the Faculty of Law, then as a chemical engineer, where he was assistant to Paul Sabatier. He was awarded a doctorate in science in 1911. He was the author of several musical works, most of which he composed around the age of twenty. He was married to the painter Luce Boyals. He died as a result of a skiing accident on February 17, 1942 at the Luchon-Superbagnères ski resort.
Artworks by this artist
- Luce reading to Rabastens
- Houses in Puycelsi
- Cubist village
- Spanish landscape
- Red zinnias vase
- The mill and the Castagne in Rabastens
- Gallery of a Moroccan riad 1912
- Ceres in the fields
- Courtyard of a Moroccan riad 1912
- Wash house on the banks of the Nive in Bayonne
- Women in cafe 1910
- House behind the trees
- Woods
- Still life with apples
- Boats at the Bazacle in Toulouse 1910
- Still life with vase and curtain
- Luce on the banjo in the living room in Rabastens
- The balcony, Provencal landscape
- The woman trader in pots
- Luce in an interior