Georges Gaudion
Images and Biography
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George Gaudion
1885-1942
George Gaudion was born in 1885, in France. Gaudion began his career in Chemistry in Toulouse where he assisted Professor Sabatier, Noble prize winning chemist.
A multi-talented artist, from 1905 to 1910 Gaudion composed works of jazz for musicales, he traveled to New Orleans were he was a jazz musician. He published six collections of poems; he founded the revue “Poesie” and published for six years the work of Apollinaire.
Gaudion was an accomplished illustrator and painter. Like his contemporaries, Barbier, Lepape, Erté, and Benito, he illustrated books and he created decoration for cabarets and theater projects. He designed revues for La Cigale. He illustrated poems for Jean Cocteau in 1922.
Gaudion also worked in Toulouse with ceramist Suthaud; they created pieces considered to be masterpieces of their day. Gaudion’s works are profoundly Art Deco, he was an inspired Cubist, and he incorporated this discipline into his superbly constructed paintings and watercolors.
