Gustave Bourgogne

Landscape near Saint-Malo

circa 1940

Gustave Bourgogne was a French painter born in 1888 in Veigné, Indre-et-Loire, and passed away in Paris in 1968. He distinguished himself through his landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes, capturing with sensitivity the light and atmosphere of the places he depicted. In 1932, alongside Henri Valensi, Charles Blanc-Gatti, and Vittorio Straquadanini, Bourgogne co-founded the Musicalist movement, seeking to create a correspondence between painting and music by translating rhythms and sound harmonies into pictorial compositions. Within the artistic context of the time, Bourgogne evolved among contemporaries such as Henri Valensi, with whom he shared an innovative vision of art, integrating musical concepts into their works. The Musicalist movement, though less well-known than other currents, reflects a period of experimentation and research into the correspondences between the arts.