Gaston Goor

 

(1902-1977)

Youth with a Book (1921) - Perhaps An Allegory of Education

 

Etching signed in pencil and dated by the artist.

 

Dimensions: 10 X 13 cm (image size - full sheet is larger - sheet is spotted outside the image.)

Condition: Extensive spotting of the margins of the paper. Central image very attractive (margins could be covered by a mat)

 

 

The French painter and illustrator Gaston Goor was a highly accomplished graphic artsist whose works were controversial for his often openly homosexual themes.

 

He was active as a book illustrator, notably for the gay writer and diplomat Roger Peyrefitte, who was one of his principal patrons.

 

Gaston Goor is listed in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists which provides an extensive list of his illustrated books including "Le Voyage de Shakespeare," by Leon Daudet, Le Jardin des Letters by Jacques Bainvilles Motherland and Contes Philosophiques by Charles Maurras.

 

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