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The Gays, with a retinue of about twenty servants, loved old houses, and lived in an eighteenth-century apartment on the Left Bank in Paris from January through April and beginningin a chateau in the countryside at le Breau, near Fontainebleau.

Reproductions of many of these paintings were published in by Albert Gallatin, also a painter. See available Walter Gay paintings for sale at Mark Murray Gallery. Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, Walter Gay became a painter who specialized in interiors, particularly those of eighteenth-century French buildings.

Inthey purchased this chateau which became quite a showplace and where they entertained extensively. However, during World War II, when Matilda was living there as a widow, German soldiers occupied the chateau, ruining much of the structure and plotting the destruction of the country the Gays loved so much.

Walter Gay — Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, Walter Gay became a painter who specialized in interiors, particularly those of eighteenth-century French buildings. The Green Salon, ca.

His style was traditional, and he ignored the influences of modernist paintings he saw while studying in Paris beginning He remained in Europe the rest of his life. He married the wealthy American expatriate Matilda Travers in London, and when they returned to Paris, her fortune provided the couple with a comfortable life.

Walter Gay Artnet: This prominent and successful American expatriate artist was born in Hingham, Masschusetts

Walter Gay was born into an old New England family and spent most of his adult life in Paris, as did many American artists of his generation. She was virtually a prisoner there, and the chateau was torn down in The Gays also collected antiques extensively and stayed away from America because they did not like what they perceived as harsh newness of the country.

There they had acres of grounds to roam. Walter Gay (January 22, – July 13, ) was an American painter noted both for his genre paintings of French peasants, paintings of opulent interior scenes and was a notable art collector. We specialize in buying & selling 19th Century & Impressionist art.

Many of his interiors are museum settings, and although he was not an impressionist, his work often had atmospheric effects. In his compositions, the rooms are nearly always devoid of human presence but suggest that someone has been there.