Gaston Suisse
# Gaston Suisse

Gaston Suisse, (December 1, 1896 – March 7, 1988) was a French artist designer, painter, lacquerer, decorator. Gaston Suisse, "is a major artist of Art Deco".

## Presentation

Founding artist of what will be called the Art Deco Period, Gaston Suisse along with his production of furniture, decorative panels and lacquer objects, participated in major international exhibitions at the beginning of the 20th century: Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in 1925, Exposition Coloniale International 1931, Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques 1937.

He exhibited at the Salon of French animal artists, and participated each year in the exhibitions with the group of animalists. His works were then exhibited at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 1971, the Vernon museum devoted a retrospective to him in 2000. For its centenary in 2004, the Dallas Museum of Art organized an exhibition entitled "Passion for Art, 100 treasures, 100 years". A three-door lacquer cabinet with bird decoration by Gaston Suisse was exhibited, among the hundred masterpieces chosen from the museum's collections, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Reims, exhibition: "Roaring Twenties, Years of Order , the Art Deco of Reims in New York" in 2007, the City of Architecture and Heritage of Paris during the exhibition "When art deco seduces the world", in October 2013 to March 2014, exhibited a lacquer panel and a screen.

His works can be found in museums in Boulogne-Billancourt, Dallas, Le Havre, Luxembourg, Paris, Roubaix, Vernon

## Some works

Gaston Suisse has produced many objects in lacquer: furniture, screens, panels, boxes, boxes and screens.

Animal artist, he drew many sketches during his travels in the Maghreb and in the zoos of Europe which he used as studies for the realization of his compositions.

* Normandie et aviateur, Exposition Internationale Paris 1937. Musée d'Art Moderne Paris
* Poissons japonais et gorgone
* Paravent Vague, 1925
