Albert Gilles SIGNED Copper Wall Hanging Art Repousse Love Birds Plaque France For Sale

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Albert Gilles SIGNED Copper Wall Hanging Art Repousse Love Birds Plaque France:
$145.00

Fabulous copper wall art by Albert Gillis of France. This is really stunning and so well done. It measures approximately 10 inches across including the frame. It’s in lovely condition very vivid colors but we do have a couple of chips in the paint please see photos. The mat is made of cork and it also has a couple of little nicks in it. Beautiful piece by renowned artist.

from Wikipedia:

Albert Louis Gilles was born the 20th of August 1895 in France and his aunt, Palmyre Gilles, introduces him to the art of Repoussé. For him, it rapidly became a passion, and at the age of 12 years old, he creates a lovely jewellery box for his mother.

Pursuing a commercial course by day, he takes art classes in the evening. During the First World War, Albert Gilles is injured in his right hand and he rehabilitates it by milking cows in a farm.

After the war, he resumes his artistic activities and in 1925 and 1926, he participates in and distinguishes himself at the «Salon des artistes décorateurs» in Paris.

In 1927, he emigrated to Canada and, on February 10, landed in Quebec City. In 1929,he founded the «Albert Gilles Studio» (became «Cuivres d'Art Albert Gilles» - «Albert Gilles Copper Art Studio» ). He crosses the border and works in Detroit, then Hollywood and Los Angeles, as a decorator, metal sculptor and sometimes as a silversmith. He also restores in 1937, the damaged gates of Havana's Capitol and decides to go back to Canada.

He starts working for the church and established himself in Quebec as a religious artist. His copper reliefs and enamel murals found their place in the artistic efflorescence that marked the religious art of this period. And in 1942, he was internationally recognized when commissioned by Pope Pius XII, to execute the silver chalice offered to the archdiocese of Montreal.

His “Christorama” exhibit is devoted to the life of Christ. Albert Gilles always considered this collection of 50 silver repoussé low reliefs, his most significant work, his greatest accomplishment and the one of which he was most proud. Started during the 1930s, it took him 15 years to achieve. The idea of the Christorama originated in Detroit in 1932.

Aaron Mendelsohn, of General Motors, commissioned the artist to create an illustrated life of Christ in memory of his late wife. He himself died when only 40 of the reliefs had been finished and Albert Gilles decide to finish them and keep them.

Over the years and into the 1960s, he decorated more than thirty places of worship in Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario, as well as in the United States and Jamaica. The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, the cathedrals of Cornwall (On.), Moncton (NB) and Valleyfield (Que.), a few chapels and many parish churches have one or more of his works.

Albert Gilles died in 1979, and since then, his family continued his work, creating secular and religious pieces.

Gilles famously once said, "I am not anartist, just anartisan."

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