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A French writer and art critic from Cannes, he left behind a small but vivid record of late 19th-century cultural life on the Riviera. His work brings together local history, painting, and music with the eye of someone closely involved in the arts.

by André Gouirand
André Gouirand was a French author active in the late 19th century. The Bibliothèque nationale de France lists him as the author of Notes d'art, critique de peinture et de musique..., published in Cannes in 1895 and drawn from articles that had appeared in local newspapers in the early 1890s.
Available records connect him closely to the artistic life of Cannes and Provence. His writing focused on art, especially painting and music, and suggests a critic interested in making local cultural life visible to a wider public.
He is also associated with Les Peintres provençaux, which points to a lasting interest in regional artists and the visual culture of southern France. Although detailed biographical information is limited, the surviving catalog and reference material show a writer rooted in the cultural world of his time and place.