Gaston Bertrand (Liège 1910 - Brussels 1994)
Founding member of "La Jeune Peinture Belge" (1945-48)

"Composition" 1958,  Oil on canvas
Exhibition : Paris, Galerie La Roue, 1958, Royal belgian academy, 1997
In 1958 the Stable Gallery in New York organized a solo exhibition of the artist
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 "Cutting and untied - Coupant et délié" 1971, Oil on canvas
Inspired by the streets of Saint-Martin-Vésubie, a village in the Provence-Alps in France
​Exhibited at the Royal belgian academy, 1997 

"Pantin" 1966, Watercolour and Tempera on pure cloth
Inspired by the "Pantin" underground station in Paris
​Exhibited at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium 1974-75

"Portrait of a lady" 1947, Oil on canvas
​SOLD

"Red Interior" 1942, Oil on canvas
Exhibition : Apollo Gallery Brussels, 1944
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels "Jeune Peinture Belge"

 Gaston Bertrand was born in the belgian province of Liège. He studied at the Fine arts Acadamy in Brussels where he met a.o. Anne Bonnet and Louis Van Lint. His first personal exhibition was organized at Galerie Dietrich in Brussels in 1942. In 1944 Robert Delevoy exhibited his works in his famous Apollo Gallery in Brussels in 1944. In 1945 Bertrand became one of the founding members of the group "Young belgian painters" - "Jeune Peinture Belge". Bertrand became one of the best known belgian artists of his generation and many influential people, such as the banker Bénédict Goldschmidt and his wife Alla, Mrs Marie Solvay, Minister ​Pierre Wigny, several lawyers etc..) ordered their portrait from the artist. In 1953 and 1958 the ​Stable Gallery in New York organized personal exhibitions of his works. Bertrand was fascinated by the architecture he discovered a.o. in 1953 in Rome, Florence (above all the Medicis Chapel designed by Michelangelo​), Milan, Bologna, Sienna and later in the Provence and in Spain (Costa Brava and Alatamira). The artist made a large number of almost abstract drawings, watercolours, gouaches and oil paintings inspired by these architectural landmarks. Bertrand synthesized what he had observed by focusing only on the essential. From 1959 to 1966 Bertrand made a series of works inspired by the underground in Paris. In 1974 the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium directed by Philippe Roberts-Jones organized an important retrospective of Gaston Bertrand. The artist participated at several Biennials in Venice and Sao Paulo. Bertrand passed away in Brussels in 1994. 

 

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