Gabriel Amoretti

Gabriel Amoretti (Toulon, 1861 - Valetta, 1947) is a painter French of the school of Toulon .

After a formation in the Toulon-native workshops, it obtains in 1883 a purse of the city which allows it to leave to improve with Paris. Admitted with the Art schools, it enters the workshop of Leon Bonnat. He works in parallel for various newspapers, of which the Illustration and the black Cat , to which he delivers drawings. He works with the decoration of the Town hall of Paris, with the International exhibition of Chicago and takes part in the World Fair of 1900.

Returned at the beginning of the century in Toulon it takes the head of the School of the fine arts of the city. With its direction during twenty years it trains many pupils, of which Barbaroux or Baboulène.

The tables of Amoretti are rather very few in the public collections, especially apart from Toulon. Its works would however deserve a place at the sides of the major provençaux painters of the beginning of the 20th century. Reflection of the tendencies of the time its art evolves/moves with the impressionist revolution. Shepherd and herd of 1891 (Museum of the fine arts of Toulon) watch of the reminiscences of the painting of Barbizon.

On its return in midday it is freed some to adopt an impressionist key and sharp and luminous colors. In its drawings as in its fabrics its preferred topics are the landscapes and the navy which he contemplates around at his place or of its cottage. It obtains nevertheless great official orders, like the gathering of olives in Draguignan for the chamber of commerce of Toulon in 1913 or the night of Valpurgis for the hearth of the opera which testify to its ease in the great compositions.

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