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1886-1962 | French
L. Mourgues; Louis-André Mourgues
Painter of Sainte-Maxime and the Gulf of Saint-Tropez
Louis André Mourgues was born at La Crau, near Toulon, in 1886. He settled at Sainte-Maxime on the Gulf of Saint-Tropez as a sign-painter, and his passion for oil painting and watercolour turned him into the painter of the town: its harbour and mole, the fishermen resting by their boats, the nets drying on the quay, the chapel of Saint-Donat in the hills behind, the villages of the Var.
He painted with a loaded brush and the knife, in thick ridges of colour that give his small panels the relief of a plaster wall, in a bright Provençal palette of ochre, red and blue.
Mourgues was awarded the Palmes académiques in 1929, and one of his paintings was later chosen to decorate the liner France. He died at Sainte-Maxime in 1962. His work remains in the houses of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez and appears regularly in sales in the south of France.
