Gaston SEBIRE

Gaston Sébire's art is both terrestrial and maritime. A strong attachment to the land and his Normandy allow him to capture characters in the middle of lush nature. The light evokes the subject, highlights it and gives it its exact importance in the painting.

Work on the motif, his colors are of an inspired accuracy, Lyricism and power of colors with tonic and invigorating accords. Sébire is a post-impressionist of pearly distances, of lights through leaves, of reflections of water.

Gaston Sébire was born on August 18, 1920 in Saint-Samson, Calvados, Normandy. He was known for his landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and flowers. Sebire was also an engraver, pastellist and painter of theatre sets. He moved to Paris in 1951 and in 1953 created the costumes and sets for L'Ange Gris, to music by Debussy, for the Ballets du Marquis de Cuevas. He lives and works in Normandy and participates in numerous group exhibitions, including the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon de Paris des Tuileries, the Salon de Paris Comparaisons since 1962, the Salon de Paris des artistes français since 1964, Paris. He appeared in other groups in London with Lorjou and Clave, in Munich, Washington, Japan, and in various exhibitions of the École de Paris at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1946, 1958 and 1962, at the Biennale des Jeunes at the Pavillon de Marsan in 1957. He received the Critics' Prize in 1953, the Greenshields Prize in 1957 and the gold medal of the Salon des Artistes Français in 1968. His first major achievement was the design of the costumes and sets for L'Ange gris, a ballet by Claude Debussy for the Marquis de Cuevas in 1953. The same year, he won the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, of which he was a member of the 24th artistic promotion, and left for Spain. And throughout the second half of the 20th century, he exhibited in the main Parisian salons, and was notably part of Maurice Boitel's group at the Comparaisons salon, for forty-five years. Today, his work can be seen in museums around the world and his exhibitions include: 1944 Galerie Gosselin in Rouen, France; 1952 Galerie Visconti in Paris, France; 1956 Galerie Charpentier in Paris, France; 1961 Galerie Combes in Clermont-Ferrand, France; 1962 Galerie Drouant in Paris, France; 1964 "Exposition" Musée de Rouen in Rouen, France; 1965 Wally Findlay Gallery in New York and Chicago; 1965 Galerie Drouant in Paris, France; 1965 Wally Findlay Gallery in Paris, France; 1968 Galerie Drouant in Paris, France; 1971 Wally Findlay Gallery in Paris, France; 1976 "Exhibitions" Cultural Center of Mesnil-Esnard, France; 1986 "Retrospective" Museum of Fine Arts of Rouen, France; 1991 Association Roger Worms with "Cacheux" in Ville de Montfermeil, France and in 1992 Wally Findlay Gallery in Paris, France. Gaston Sébire was appointed painter of the Navy in 1973 and he became a member of the Academy of Rouen in 1973. Sébire died in 2001.

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