Paul Le Gallou : Dinard — la plage, la mer, les îles, 1989 (Gouache)

By LE GALLOU Paul (XX-XXI)

Paul Le Gallou (dates to confirm)
Dinard — la plage, la mer, les îles, 1989
Gouache
Inscribed by hand, upper area: “Quand le ciel et la mer se jouent des transparences / Dinard, paysage familier devient l’imaginaire / à Monsieur Guérin”; signed and dated upper right “P. le Gallou 89, Dinard”; signed again lower right “P. le Gallou”

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: the full sheet

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance). Dated from the collector’s Casino de Dinard period; Le Gallou is the painter of Dinard par excellence.

Description: A faceted, near-cubist view of Dinard — a curving staircase descending in the foreground, a balustrade surmounted by an urn, and beyond, the beach, sea and rocky islets of the Côte d’Émeraude — the whole built from a grid of translucent, overlapping planes in soft blues, greys, ochres and whites. Paul Le Gallou is a Dinard painter, a graduate of applied arts whose work, held in private collections worldwide, conjures a dreamlike world of fabulous architecture, vast perspectives, skies, seas and staircases leading toward an unsolvable mystery — precisely the spirit of the dedication, in which the familiar landscape of Dinard becomes the imaginary. Signed, dated and dedicated by hand.

Price : 150,00 € ( 170.00 USD )