GEORGES DANIEL DE MONFREID PAINTINGS FOR SALE & BIOGRAPHY

GEORGES DANIEL DE MONFREID

French, 1856-1929

BIOGRAPHY
"The letters of the great painter Paul Gauguin, to his friend and fellow artist Georges Daniel de Monfreid," writes Frederick O'Brien, "reveal one of those deep friendships which, whether existing among those distinguished in the world of letters or of art, or among more simple and less gifted individuals, seem to mark its possessors with a certain vivid fascination. It was a friendship not romantic in its outer aspects, and barren of fervent protestations - yet to Gauguin it meant, without exaggeration, his artistic life. For Daniel de Monfreid was the man who made what little ease and comfort he ever had in the South Seas, possible. He was his friend, his banker and his counsellor. He interviewed dealers, dunned creditors, sold his friend's pictures and exhibited them in his own studio; ran errands for him, provided him with everything, from artists' materials to flower-seeds and shoes and strings for his mandolin. And without his help Gauguin's life in the South Seas could barely have lasted out a year" (Frederick O'Brien, ed., Gauguin's Letters from the South Seas, New York, 1992, p. 7). Gauguin's letters to de Monfreid were written in the last twelve years of his life in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands between 1891 and 1903.

Monfreid exhibited at the Café des Arts Volpini in Paris in 1889 with the Groupe Impressioniste et Synthétiste, and took part in the Salon d'Automne. His work was included in the 1998 exhibition 1894-1908: Le Roussillon à l'Origine de l'Art Moderne at the Palais des Congrès in Perpignan. In 2003, an exhibition devoted to Monfreid’s friendship with Gauguin, Georges-Daniel de Monfreid, le Confident de Gauguin, was held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle d’Alençon and the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Narbonne.

Museum Collections
Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Beziers
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
British Museum, London
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Narbonne
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Petit Palais), Paris
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Musée Hyacinthe-Rigaud, Perpignan
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rheims

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