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Jean-Pierre Dubord, A Contemporary Master of LIght and Atmosphere
Jean-Pierre Dubord was born in Rouen in 1949 and has spent most of his life there. He is largely a self-taught artist, although an uncle who had studied with the artist Gen-Paul advised and encouraged him when he was young. He drew support from his many artist-friends in the Rouen area. He studied Art History and Decorative Arts in a two-year course at the School of the Louvre in Paris.
His first exhibition of 30 oils in Rouen in 1970 was very favorably reviewed by the critics. That same year he completed his studies in Biochemistry and went to work for a pharmaceutical company. He continued to show his work in galleries and was soon receiving prizes in the competitive exhibitions to which he submitted paintings, among them an Honorable Mention at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris in 1985. Dubord left his position as a chemist in 1987 to devote himself to his painting career.
Dubord is first and foremost a landscape painter. His delicate, finely detailed canvases follow the Seine as it winds through Normandy from Paris to the English Channel. Winter and summer, in light and atmospheric effects, which change constantly, he records village streets and modest dwellings, barge traffic on the river, the flower and vegetable gardens tended by his fellow Normans. Reaching the sea, he gives us marvelous studies of water and sky in his harbor scenes and beaches. And always he returns to Rouen, a subject of inexhaustible interest for him...in the fog, blanketed with snow, viewed from the surrounding hills, its majestic cathedral spires dimly visible in the mist. This exhibition also includes some of his beautiful floral subjects.
Jean-Pierre Dubord's work has been exhibited throughout France, in Japan and in major exhibitions with galleries across the United States.
Awards: 1983--First Prize of the Salon de Canteleu; 1984--First Prize of the Salon d'Yport, Gold Medal at the Salon de Rueil Malmaison; 1985--Honorable Mention at the Salon des Artistes Francais-Paris, Prize of the Conseil General du Val d'Oise at the Salon de Pontoise, Landscape prize at the Salon du Val d'Or, Gold Medal of the City of Bonsecours; 1988--Prix d'Honneur at the Concours des Marines in Honfleur, Membership in the Salon d'Automne-Paris
Price: $2,650
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