Georges Ricard-Cordingley

Vague bondissante (1930)

A painter and traveller, Georges Ricard-Cordingley (1873-1939) constantly searched for an original contact with the world of sea.

Biography

First voyage to the North Sea with The Fishermen’s Mission. First studies for seascapes.

Works exhibited in Paris and London.

Divides time between London, Paris, and Boulogne. Paints portraits and seascapes.

Éliane (1913-1945), Louis (1917-1942) and Gabrielle (born 1924).

Divides time between the Parisian suburb, Cannes and Boulogne. Takes many trips Normandy, Brittany, the Mediterranean, North Africa. Exhibits work in and around Paris, Cannes, and Boulogne. Also travels to lake regions in Switzerland, Italy and France.

Winters in Cannes, summers in Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Work

Georges Ricard-Cordingley is the only maritime artist to have begun life in Lyon. His taste for the esoteric, his writings about art, and his treatment of mist in seascapes—nuanced tones, subtle harmonies—make him a clear product of the Lyonnais school of painting. Here was a man remarkable for his discretion, finesse, and restraint in conveying feelings and emotions. Ricard-Cordingley was said to be a painter of colourful greys: hues echoed not only in the styles of the Lyonnais and London schools, but in the two cities themselves, which granted the artist his first taste of success. He would also find a niche in Boulogne-sur-Mer and Cannes. In Cordingley’s mind, the morning fog on the North Sea was linked to the evening fog on the Côte d’Azur, and his work basks in the uncertain, infinite nature that this artistic “bilingualism” so effortlessly translates into universal emotion. Different—but above all, diverse—Cordingley’s oils, watercolours and charcoals are marked by a unique artistic vision that unites them all.

From Pierre Miquel (1921-2002) art historian, Cordingley expert

References

Sources

Cristina Baron, Georges Ricard-Cordingley, Paris, musée national de la Marine, 2006, ISBN 2-901421-25-3

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