ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Girault: Born in France in 1948; American Citizen since 1984
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Renaissance sculptor
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Poet
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"Bourlingueur"; French in the text; (World traveler),
Patrick has traveled for pleasure, lived and worked
in many countries on four continents.
Europe, Scandinavia, Northern Africa, Middle East,
Northern & Central Americas, Asia.
On Many seas and oceans;
Off shore Drilling, Platforms and Drill ships.
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Corsica;
6 weeks on the sailboat of his brother, Bernard.
"La Dolce Vita" on the Mediterranean.
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Adventurer: Gone on several survival treks in the wilderness.
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Crossing on foot of the Grand Canyon from the
North Rim to the South Rim
Horseman: Steps & Gobi desert of Mongolia
Wild Horses of Mongolia
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Man of many trades and passions.
American, (French born, with a drop of Irish blood, which exploded in his making), but also man of the world!
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Raised in Europe in a very artistic and culturally rich environment;
A Renaissance man and world traveler since his early childhood,
Patrick came to the United States in 1973.
Patrick is a United States Citizen.
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Patrick's involvement with "Les Beaux Arts" is part of an early upbringing.
Le Louvre, l'Orangerie, le Grand Palais in Paris, were Patrick's playgrounds.
His whole family but more especially his Grandfather, Fernand de Rocher de largentière, poet, writer, and art critic, left Patrick with a rich artistic, cultural and educational heritage.
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Patrick, a self taught artist, has studied all his life, the classics as well as the latest "Avant Garde", art masters of our times.
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Patrick Girault's artwork is part of many private & City Garden Museums, National, International, Private and Corporate Collections.