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b. 1946 | French
Impressionist Painter of the Channel Coast and Picardy
Guy Legendre was born in Amiens in 1946 and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts of Amiens and then at the ABC school in Paris. He has lived and worked in Picardy, near Amiens, ever since, painting in oil, watercolour and pastel in an Impressionist manner in which, as he puts it, light holds the essential place.
His subjects are the coasts and harbours within reach of home and the places of his travels: the fishing fleet and the jetty at Le Tréport, the quays and the sailors’ chapel at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Trouville and Varengeville, the hortillonnages of Amiens, and further afield Brittany (Le Conquet, Trédrez-Locquémeau, Belon), Collioure, Moret-sur-Loing, Giverny, Bruges, Marrakech and Essaouira.
He has exhibited across France and received more than fifty awards, among them the first prize of the Garde Républicaine at the Invalides and prizes at the Jules Verne commemoration and an international competition in Belgium. His work is listed in the Akoun price guide and has passed through French auction rooms several hundred times.
