Georges Maurice Cloud

Geometric Abstractions

March 17th - April 21st, 2017

Richard Norton Gallery presents an exhibition of colorful, Mid-Century geometric abstractions by Georges Maurice Cloud. Cloud was born in Brittany, France in 1909. He studied art and design in Escoublac and La Baule. In the 1930s, Cloud attended the Beaux-Arts Academy in Paris. Cloud worked professionally as an architect and designer in both Paris and Brittany, and designed numerous Modern houses, interiors, tapestries and hand-crafted pieces of furniture. An accomplished painter, he also completed numerous mural and advertising commissions. Cloud painted decorative frescoes and designed furniture for many of the famed French transatlantic ocean liners, such as the S.S. Ile de France and the Normandie. Cloud exhibited his work at the Salon des Sur-Independants and at other venues throughout France. He died in 1973.

Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1958

Gouache on paper

4 x 7 1/2 inches

Signed Cloud lower right.

#7553
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1958

Gouache on paper

4 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches

Signed Cloud lower left.

#7556
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1958

Gouache on paper

3 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches

Signed Cloud lower left.

#7550
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), CA. 1958

Gouache on paper

4 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches

Signed Cloud lower left.

#7559
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1958

Gouache on paper

3 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches

Signed Cloud lower right.

#7549
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1958

Gouache on paper

4 x 7 1/2 inches

Signed Cloud lower left.

#7555
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1958

Gouache on paper

4 x 7 3/4 inches

Signed Cloud lower right.

#7557
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1958

Gouache on paper

4 x 7 3/4 inches

Signed Cloud upper right.

#7554
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1958

Gouache on paper

4 x 7 3/4 inches

Signed Cloud lower left.

#7551
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1958

Gouache on paper

4 x 7 3/4 inches

Signed Cloud lower left.

#7558
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1958

Gouache on paper

4 x 7 3/4 inches

Signed Cloud lower left.

#7552
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1962

Collage on paper

8 3/4 x 14 inches

Signed Cloud lower left.

#7563
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1960

Gouache on paper

18 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches

Signed Cloud lower left.

#7564
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Tapis, ca. 1935

Gouache on paper

5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches

Signed with initials GMC lower right.

#3466
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Tapis, 1929

Watercolor, ink and collage on paper

6 x 6 inches

Signed and dated G Maurice 1929 lower right.

#6129
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Tapis, 1929

Watercolor, ink and collage on paper

6 1/2 x 7 inches

Signed with initials GMC lower center; dated lower right.

#7567
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Design for a Tapestry, 1929

Watercolor, ink, graphite and collage on paper

20 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches

Signed with initials GMC lower right and dated lower left.

#5084
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Abstraction, 1949

Ink on paper

25 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches

Signed and dated G Maurice Cloud '49, lower center.

#6149
Georges Maurice Cloud

French, 1909 - 1973

Abstraction, 1949

Charcoal on paper

24 1/2 x 17 inches

Signed and dated G Maurice Cloud '49, lower right.

#6147

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