Raymond Thibesart ' View of the Port ', oil on canvas, circa 1930/40

Raymond thibesart French 1874 - 1968 The son of a wealthy family, Raymond Thibésart was born in Bar-sur-Aube, May 2, 1874. Shortly after his parents moved to Enghien, in the outskirts of Paris. This is where the Thibésarts meet a Venezuelan family who has just arrived in France, the Boggios. Very gifted for drawing, Thibésart admired Emile Boggio, 17 years older, who gave him his first lessons when he was eleven. The master Emile Boggio, Venezuelan impressionist painter of great talent, became the first teacher of Raymond Thibésart. A very sensitive and talented painter, he was very generous with all those who surrounded him. Having no financial problem, it is possible to say that painting was his life. Surrounded by little publicity, he created an important work of high artistic quality. For almost seventy years, Raymond Thibésart carried out his work in a perfect family balance. Blind, he stopped painting at the age of ninety-two and died in 1968 at the age of ninety-four. Exhibitions: From 1897; member, then gold medalist of the Society of French Artists, exhibits regularly at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. The main exhibitions include: 1907, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Paris. 1923, Galerie Knoedler, Paris. 1913 - 1927, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris. 1930, Galerie Ecalle, Paris. 1937 - 1941, Galerie Romanet, Paris, Algiers. 1942 - 1965, Galerie des Champs-Élysées, Paris. Abroad, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Japan, U.S.A in particular for 5 years at the Wally Findlay Gallery, in New York and Palm Beach. Six exhibitions took place at the Arte Moderno Gallery in Caracas between 1969 and 1981 Our coordinates