Until the beginning of the 1930s, the work of Edouard Goerg denounced the shortcomings of the bourgeois society from which he came. Arranged marriages, outings, family life. He is caustic, biting, his subjects deformed to the point of caricature, his palette, dark at first, gradually lightens.
The events of February 6, 1934, the rise of fascism in Europe, the Spanish War, inspired him to create a series of so-called fantastic works. These visions came to an end with the declaration of war, Goerg then defies the occupier with his flower daughters, carefree, as if life were beautiful... He painted a few religious paintings in the 1950s, but women, girls and ingenuous people will bloom in his canvases to the last. Sometimes accompanied by ridiculous men, his verve of the young years turning into irony with time.
But the real subject of Edouard Goerg's paintings is the painting itself. 

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LOT n°36 Edouard Joseph GOERG Edouard Joseph GOERG (1893-1969) - Danseuses - Huile sur toile signée et datée 1947 en bas à gauche - Accidenté - 73 x 60 cm Fiche détaillée

LOT n°37 Edouard Joseph GOERG Edouard Joseph GOERG (1893-1969) - Le bouquet en coeur - Huile sur toile signée et datée (19)43 en bas à droite et contresignée, titrée et datée 1943 au dos - 50 x 46 cm Fiche détaillée