Tarn and Gaillac Paintings

Tarn and Gaillac Paintings of this Historic Wine Region.

Henry II Plantagenet King of England (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), according to records in The Tower of London, liked Gaillac wines and ordered more as did George Washington and many other famous people.

Introducing a French secret, seductive, at the heart of l’Occitane, Gaillac wines include France’s oldest vines and deliciously most surprising wines, Gaillac wine. Française   Flag_of GB half inch .svg

Creating “The Port of Gaillac 1863”, in and for a wine museum

Gaillac wines and my paintings are all with a unique history that dates back to Phoenicians and Roman settlements in a region many call “a paradise on Earth”.

Gaillac paintings
Hyperlink > Gaillac, abbey Saint Michel, Sunset

Gaillac, pronounced ‘guy-ack, is remote, isolated until recently and yet producing some of the best wines in France…

Hyperlink >  Gaillac, a view including the Abbaye Saint Michel from which fine wines were exported from as early as the 13th century.

76 x 50.5 cm (30″ x 20″) A good investment for 4,000 £ and a pleasure to own

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Gaillac
Gaillac plien aire, Gaillac as painted on location

40 x 50 cm (16″ x 20″) a good investment for 2,500 £ and a pleasure to own and by any standards this is a first class painting, one of my best 

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Port of Gaillac 1863

Port of Gaillac 1863      200 x 100 cm (6′ 9” ″ x 3′ 3″)

This large painting made my reputation around Gaillac, a very much admired painting.

SOLD to the museum ‘inVINcible VIGNEron Museum’  85 route de Tres Cantous, 81600 BROZE, Gaillac.

Gaillac the port, 1863, ancient quarter, a charming southern French town with some of the most ancient vines in all France and deep pre medieval wine roots.

An honour

In July 2019 an invitation arrived at my studio to attend the opening ceremony of  the Chinese-Gaillac International  “Festival des Lanterns” run in conjunction with the Chinese Government. Last year the festival attracted 350,000 visitors.

The reason, my painting “Gaillac the port, 1863,” was the only European artwork to inspire some of the Chinese artists.

Paintings and wines,

Not many people 😶 can offer their guests fine rare wines and have a painting of the château on their dinning room wall.

I can, you could 😃🙂 by buying paintings following my wine recommendations.

Château de Mayragues
Château de Mayragues  53 x 81 cm (21” x 32”) 500 £ 

I recently started a party in my home with two bottles of Brut de Mayragues, the ancestor of Champagne, a sparkling wine made by the Gaillac Méthode Ancestrale and 100 % bio-dynamic.

The Gaillac paintings series:

Gaillac wines have a unique history that dates back to Phoenicians and Roman settlements, introducing a region many call “a paradise on Earth”.

Paintings inspired by an invitation to exhibit from the municipal to exhibit Service Culturale de la ville de Gaillac.

more than a match for anything in the Musee d’Orsay” said Alain Soreano of Gaillac, author and historian when opening my exhibition at the Centre Culturale, Gaillac, December 2016.

Château de Mayragues
Hyperlink > Château de Mayragues, for Gaillac classic wines.

53 x 81 cm (21” x 32”), 2,500 £ 

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Chateau de Meyragues is lovingly restored inside and out, a 30 plus years task and offers méthode ancestrale as well as the latest developments in bio dynamic wines.

Most of this series was created  as a result of an  invitation to exhibit from the municipal at the Service Culture de la ville de Gaillac. 80 place d’Hautpoul, December 2016.

Castel de Brames
Hyperlink > Castel de Brames

61 x 915 cm (24″ x 36″) A good investment for 1,277 £ and a pleasure to own

Castel de Brames unique among the unique, the most ancient vine varieties in all France, in the remote department of Tarn near L’isle sur Tarn, Gaillac.

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Vin du Coq

Did you know, the symbol of Gaillac wines is a cockerel?
You probably do know I have numerous paintings created in and around Gaillac on my website
Very good wines though they are, this doesn’t translate quite as the Gaillacois intended !😄⚓️
Gaillac wines
Vin de Coq

Think and dream of a region blessed with it’s own benevolent micro climate, noted for exceptionally beautiful landscapes, gourmet foods, a wide variety of produce including ‘Vin du Coq’.

Centuries astern Gaillac merchants started to brand their barrels with a cockerel and when bottling would use a distinctive bottle shape, today the cockerel remains Gaillac Wines traditional brand mark.

The branding was necessary because Bordeaux merchants were passing off as ‘Bordeaux’, the superior wines of Gaillac and pocketing the extra profit.

Vin-du-Coq poster, Gaillac
Vin-du-Coq poster

Today after the disasterous loss of quality caused around 1860 by a tiny yellow louse called phylloxera inadvertently introduced from America which decimated French vines, the Gaillac reputation is being rediscovered, by whom and why is quite a story.

Chateau de Saurs
Hyperlink > Chateau de Saurs,  Gaillac.

122 x 76 cm (48″ x 30″) A painting with great ‘presence’, if you like what you see here you will love the painting, guaranteed !

Gaillac, Chateau de Saurs, a good investment for 8,000 £ and a pleasure to own,

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Endorsement, of his new landscape John J. Hogerty, II, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Bergstrom Corporation wrote on the 12.12.2022 It is even more beautiful in person than online. I love the texture and the use of light”.

Paintings to date :

this fine collection has not as [yet] been shown outside of Gaillac and this web site.

There was a time when Gaillac wines were among the most desired in France and yet today few have heard of Gaillac wines … how could that be so?

My ‘Gaillac Collection’ is an opportunity for you in more senses than one.

 

Hyperlink > Château de Lacroux <

81 x 58 cm (32” x 23″) A good investment for 2,175 £ and a pleasure to own 

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If you like what you seen here I can assure you, you will love the original paintings …

It is even more beautiful in person than online. I love the texture and the use of light” wrote John J. Hogerty II, of his new acquisition, 12.12.2022. 

Domain du Barry
Hyperlink > Domain du Barry, 25 August.

Domain du Barry, Gaillac,

40 x 48 cm (16” x 19”) A good investment for 975 £ and a pleasure to own  

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Chateau Lastours
Hyperlink > Chateau Lastours

A good investment for 1,875  £ and a pleasure to own

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Here is a region formerly very famous for it’s fine, distinctive wines, enjoyed by among others, Kings of England and the founding fathers of the United States of America, a reputation lost to disaster during the 19th century.

 

Château de Terride
Château de Terride,

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Until very recently, remote, almost secretive, independent, still certainly seductive, was famed for its independent winegrowers was famous long centuries before Bordeaux.

 

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Château de Terride

Château Clément Termes
Château Clément Termes

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Follow the ‘Further Reading’ the link near the end of this page, to discover some of why  Gaillac is such an extraordinary, exciting region but mostly browse on and enjoy.

This fertile region was until recently considered remote.

People joked with some truth, “even the French don’t go there“.

 

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The beautiful  Gaillac Collection has only once been exhibited, has not yet been shown outside of Gaillac.

That once was by invitation of the municipal at the Service Culture de la ville de Gaillac. 80 place d’Hautpoul, December 2016.

 

sunset-and-vines-Peyres Roses-26-11-16
sunset-and-vines-Peyres Roses-26-11-16,

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Imagine, an exhibition, in major cities, London, Paris, New York?

Ideally to include the paintings as the core, presented with products of the region, wines, foods, other, and live music.

Who could refuse such an invitation?

What an opportunity for a sponsor, imagine …

Gaillac, in and around

Gaillac you can still discover the seductive ambience of  old South West France at its best.

Gaillac and Albi as towns, the nearby bastide villages, will repay you richly for your visit, the shopping, the restaurants and cafes, the old quarters, the parks and museums and naturally, the very varied wines.

Chateau Lastours Avenue, (unfinished), available
Chateau Lastours Avenue, (unfinished),

A good investment for 500 £ and a pleasure to own

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Domaine de la Tronque, 23.09.16
Hyperlink > Domaine de la Tronque,

81 x 51 cm (20″ x 32 “) A good investment for 1,975 £ and a pleasure to own

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Among Gaillac wines you can find the latest thinking in bio and bio dynamic wines.

 

Bastide de Levis
Bastide de Levis

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Gaillac, Valley of Wines
Gaillac, Valley of Wines,

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Farm & sunflowers
Hyperlink to > Farm & sunflowers

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To discover why Gaillac is even among special places, very special,  history and future, sample Further Reading

Typically Gaillac

Labourie landscape, typically Gaillac     SOLD

Exhibited at Harwich “you could have sold that painting five times over“; Sean Day, Managing Director, Harwich Mayflower Project.

More than a match for anything in the Musee d’Orsay”

said Alain Soreano, author, historian, poet, Maire-Adjoint, Chargé de la Culture et du Patrimoine, Ville de Gaillac, when introducing The Frickers Exhibition, December 2016.

Endorsement : 12.12.2022 « The painting arrived well wrapped and no worse for wear related to the journey. It is even more beautiful in person than online. I love the texture and the use of light. It will be treasured by us as a memory of a great trip and will be the highlight of Morgan’s Christmas morning”.

John J. Hogerty, II

Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Bergstrom Corporation.

Vin du Coq, more

Centuries astern Gaillac merchants started to brand their barrels with a cockerel and when bottling would use a distinctive bottle shape, today the cockerel remains Gaillac Wines traditional brand mark.

The branding was necessary because the only way to export Gaillac wines was to send them in barges (gabbare) down the turbulent Tarn river to be sold off the quays of Bordeaux.

Bordeaux merchants were passing off as ‘Bordeaux’, the superior wines of Gaillac and pocketing the extra profit, hence the brand mark burnt onto ever Gaillac ‘tun’ and barrel.

Gaillac wines passed into obscurity during the late 19th century phylloxera epidemic which destroyed most of the vineyards in Europe, most notably in France.

Dream of  a region blessed with it’s own benevolent micro climate, noted for exceptionally beautiful landscapes, gourmet foods, a wide variety of produce and ‘Vin du Coq’.

Happily for us, today the Gaillac reputation is being rediscovered, by whom and why is quite a story.

Gaillac et le coq
Gaillac et le coq

Gaillac are wines are among the oldest wines of the land we now call France with an amazing history.

Records in the Tower of London tell us the Plantagenet king Henry II (from 1154 to 1189) drank Gaillac wines, liked them and ordered more.

As if that is not enough, the Gaillac story includes roots that go at least as deep as the Phoenicians.

Archaeologists tell us it is likely the Phoenicians planted the first vines although the regular harvesting of vines probably occurred earlier.

Certainly the Romans grew vines around Gaillac and Gaillac was where Dom Pérignon worked for 11 years supervising the wines of the abbey.

Champagne and fame

It was at Gaillac that Dom Pérignon learnt how to make sparkling wines before the Church sent him onto another region where he introduced the sparkling wine techniques thereby creating Champagne.

I hope you will enjoy discovering Gaillac wine as much as I have.

A word of caution, Gaillac is a seductive region, you may find you want to live there !

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