André Bourrié, learn more about the artist

André Bourrié (1936–2017), official painter of the Navy, ceramist, and lithographer, is renowned for his mastery of pointillist and neo-impressionist landscapes. Born in Montpellier, he had a difficult childhood: abandoned by his father, orphaned at 13, he learned a manual trade in an orphanage. But it was painting that attracted him. He began by painting the rooftops of Paris, construction sites, and scaffolding—a verticality that would mark his style. Having become a ceramics professor and a Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman of France), he eventually devoted himself entirely to his art. His maritime landscapes of Brittany, the Côte d'Azur, and Languedoc, where water is omnipresent, earned him the title of official painter of the Navy in 1983. His luminous and sensitive work reveals the sea as a space of peace and silence.