Gaston Goor

1902-1977

Born in Luneville in 1902, Gaston Goor makes the School of Fine Arts of Nancy and moved to Paris in 1925 in the studio of Amédée Ozenfant. Goor was active between 1925 and 1952.

It was after his meeting with André Gide that he illustrates forty books of the Capitol editions. There are also drawings in the magazine L'Illustration , including one dedicated to the International Colonial Exposition in 1931 commanded by Marshal Lyautey

He also befriends Renaud Icard , friend of Gide, with whom he kept up a close correspondence.

Goor retired in Hyeres, he died of cancer at the Toulon hospital December 13, 1977.

Goor created several book covers, notably for Roger Peyrefitte, and also illustrated books, including: Writers and Artists (Écrivains et Artistes) (1927-1929) and Shakespeare's Journey (Le Voyage de Shakespeare) (1927) by Léon Daudet; The Nun (La Religieuse) by Denis Diderot (1928); The Garden of Letters (Le Jardin des Lettres) by Jacques Bainvilles (1929); The Evening Star (L'Étoile du Soir) by Henry de Montherlant (1949); Three Great Men before God - Molière, Rousseau and Flaubert (Trois Grands Hommes devant Dieu (Molière, Rousseau, Flaubert)) by François Mauriac (1930); Philosophical Tales (Contes Philosophiques) by Charles Maurras (1928); and The Diamond of Barbenoire (Le Diamant de Barbenoire) by J. Meade Falkner (1952).