Gaston Goor

 

(1902-1977)

"La Negresse du Sacre Cour" d'Andre Salmon (1928)

 

Etching

 

Dimensions: 15.5 X 8 (image size - full sheet is larger)

Condition: Some soiling and spotting primarily visiblein the margins.

 

La Negresse du Sacre Cour was a novel by Andre Salmon, a close associate of Picasso and other Montmartre artists, which was set in the Montmartre of that period. This engraving is an illustration for the book by Goor.

 

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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