Pierre Gandon
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Pierre Gandonwas a French illustrator and engraver ofpostage stamps.He was born on 20 January 1899 inL'Haÿ-les-Roses(Val-de-Marne) and died on 23 July 1990.
Youth
[edit]His fatherGaston Gandonwas himself an engraver at the Institut de gravure ofParisand designed stamps for some countries and two for France (Le Burelé 50 Francs in 1936 and the cathedral of Strasbourg in 1939).
Pierre Gandon studied in Paris at theÉcole Estienne,then at theÉcole des Beaux-Arts.He won his first of many prizes in 1921: thePrix de Rome.
Stamp designer
[edit]Gandon answered an advertisement in a paper and finally obtained the right to design "Femme indigène", his firstpostage stampseries issued 1941 in the French colony ofDahomey.
The same year was issued his first stamp for France: thecoat of armsofReims.
In 1941, during theSecond World War,withLuigi Corbellini,Gérard Cochet,and others Gandon was one of the painters and sculptors who received the higher rate of 10,000Francsfrom the City of Paris to compensate artists and intellectuals for loss of income.[1]
Four times he received theGrand Prix de l'Art philatéliqueduring his career that including:
- « Haute couture parisienne» (Paris high sewing), drawn by Gandon, engraved by Jules Piel, France, 1953.
- « La jeune fille de Bora Bora » (The Girl of Bora Bora), Drawn and Engraved by Gandon, French Polynesia, 1955.
- «Les joueurs de cartes» (Card Players), painting by Paul Cézanne, France, 1961. This stamp was part of the first series of paintings that the French Post issued.
- «La Dame à la licorne» (The Lady and the Unicorn), medieval tapestry, France, 1964.
Among the most famous stamps designed and engraved by Gandon are two series of female allegories in common use of the 1940s, 1970s and 1980s:
three Frenchdefinitive stampsseries:
- Marianne de Gandon seriesissued at the end of the Second World War,
- Sabine de Gandon seriesinspired byJacques-Louis David'sThe Intervention of the Sabine Women,issued during the 1970s,
- andLiberté de Gandon seriesinspired byEugène Delacroix'sLiberty Leading the People.He was 82 years old when he engraved this stamp.
His last stamp was issued for theJournée du timbre 1983.
In total, Pierre Gandon designed and/or engraved over 350 stamps for France[2]and over double that number for the French Colonies.[citation needed]He designed the first stamps issued by theCentral African Republicin December 1959.[3]
See also
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Media related toPierre Gandonat Wikimedia Commons
References
[edit]- Stamps Review magazine, special issue No. 3, July–September 2003
- Alphonse Daudet's Lettres de mon moulin, illustrations Pierre Gandon, 1937 Librairie des Amateurs, Ferroud Publishers, Paris
- Notes
- ^Laurence Bertrand Dorléac,Art of the Defeat: France 1940-1944(Getty Publications, 2008), p. 187
- ^"Les 408 timbres, blocs-feuillets, carnets français, souvenirs philatéliques ou timbres à date de Pierre Gandon ➽ Liste alphabétique des artistes, ou agences, ayant contribué à la création d´un timbre - ➽ le classement des artistes selon le nombre de timbres à la création desquels ils ont participé".
- ^Hamilton, Ben (1959)."Central African Republic Marks First Year, Hails Late Premier".Scott's Monthly Journal.pp. 208–209, 224.
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