01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #270

Gilbert Galland (1870 - 1956)

Boats at low tide 

Watercolor on paper

48 x 62 cm

Private collection

Gilbert Galland, born Paul Numa Gilbert Galland the 25 February 1870 in Lyon 5 th , and died on 14 August 1950 in Algeria) was a French orientalist .

In Algiers, in 1889, Gilbert Galland was the pupil of Hippolyte Dubois, painter from Nantes, director of the Beaux-Arts of Algiers. He liked to paint boats, harbors and scenes of life. With his teacher, he was one of the founders of the Society of Algerian Orientalist Artists in 1897. He exhibited at the Society of Fine Arts of Algiers and also in Paris, where he presented watercolors views of Brittany, Marseille , from the Far East and Algeria.

Galland was appointed painter of the Navy in 1900. The same year, he participated in the decoration of the restaurant The Blue Train of the Gare de Lyon in Paris with the Rummel Valley for the Tunisian show, and Vue d'Alger for the show Algerian.

With Maxime Noiré , he went to Bou-Saâda , an oasis city nicknamed "The City of Happiness" or "Door of the Desert", to prepare for the Algerian diorama of the Universal Exhibition of 1900 .

He also paints views of Jerusalem and decorated many ships for the Shipping Companies.

Gilbert Galland receives the Palmes académiques in 1901. More on Gilbert Galland

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