"Nassau Harbor, Bahamas"

Beautifully painted in the post impressionist style a view of the French city of Rouen along the barge lined Seine River by the well known contemporary French artist, Jean Pierre Dubord. Dubord was born in Rouen and currently makes his residence there. The tall church spire to the right in the paining is the Cathedral Notre Dame of Rouen. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Circa 1985. The painting is housed in it’s original ornate gold leaf frame with linen liner in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 32 by 38 inches. Provenance: de Grimme Gallery, Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

Rouen, capital of the northern French region of Normandy, is a port city on the river Seine. Important in the Roman era and Middle Ages, it has Gothic churches, such as Saint-Maclou and Saint-Ouen, and a cobblestoned pedestrian center with medieval half-timbered houses. The skyline is dominated by the spires of Cathédrale Notre-Dame, much-painted by Impressionist Claude Monet.

Jean-Pierre Dubord was born in Rouen, France in 1949 and has spent most of his life there. He studied Art History and Decorative Arts in a two year course at the Louvre in Paris but is largely a self-taught artist.

His first exhibition of thirty oils in Rouen in 1970 was favorably reviewed by the critics. In the 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 competitive exhibitions among them an Honorable Mention at the Salon des Artistes Françoise in Paris in 1985. In 1987, Pierre left his position as a chemist to devote his time to a career in painting.

Dubord is mostly a landscape painter. His delicate canvasses follow the Seine as it winds through Normandy from Paris to the English Channel. Winter and summer, in light and atmospheric effects that change quickly and constantly, he records village streets, modest dwellings, barge traffic on the river and gardens tended by his fellow Normans. Reaching the sea, he gives us marvelous studies of water and sky in his harbor scenes and beaches. Rouen in the fog, blanketed with snow, the views of the surrounding hills, majestic cathedral spires dimly visible in the mist all subjects of inexhaustible interest to Dubord.

Jean-Pierre Dubord’s work has been exhibited throughout France, in Japan and in major exhibitions in galleries across the United States.

JEAN PIERRE DUBORG
French, 1949-

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

Jean-Pierre Dubord is on permanent exhibition at Arnot Gallery in New York