Death of the painter Yvon Le Corre
The maritime art world has just lost one of its 20th century figures. The painter and navigator Yvon Le Corre died on 25 August 2020 in Tréguier, at the age of 81. Born on 7 October 1939 in Saint-Brieuc, he had returned to settle in the Côtes d'Armor in the 1990s. Two exhibitions were devoted to him this summer 2020 in Tréguier and Lannion.
Painter and teacher of Titouan Lamazou
Although he practiced painting from a young age, Yvon Le Corre began his artistic training at the School of Fine Arts in Saint-Brieuc. There he was a pupil of Emile Daubé. He later became a teacher. In the 1970s, as a teacher in Marseille, he passed on his passion for the alliance of painting and the sea to Titouan Lamazou.
Passion for travel and old rigging
A sailor and traveller, Yvon Le Corre made a name for himself in the late 1970s, notably through his first book, Heureux qui comme Iris, an account of his sailing trip aboard the Smack Iris, a British fishing boat. After the shipwreck of this one in Scotland in 1979, he had Eliboubane built, a replica of a sardine boat from Douarnenez. He travelled with this semi-decked canoe to Cape Verde where he donated it to local fishermen.
He will continue his navigations, from Antarctica to Spitsbergen, through the Caribbean and Madagascar, publishing his sketchbooks and paintings. Girl Joyce, his last boat, a pilot cutter from 1855, used to gather old rigs, was put up for sale in the summer of 2019. Having become his own lead printer, also a writer, he leaves behind him precious sketchbooks and watercolours for lovers of maritime heritage, from Carnet d'Irlande to Outils de la passion via L'Ivre de mer.
