Marie Joseph Paul de GAIGNERON-MORIN, was born in Paris, February 22, 1890. He is the youngest son of the second marriage of Viscount Marie Paul Philippe Maxime of GAIGNERON-MORIN with Agnès de GONTAUT-BIRON. After studying at the Académie Julian in Paris, he became a student, in 1910, of the French painter and engraver Othon FRIESZ (1879-1949). During the first world war, he will be wounded twice, causing stays in the hospital from where he paints. The second time in 1918, he was in Morocco. During this Moroccan stay, he exhibited first at the Rabat Fair, then at the Excelsior Hotel in Casablanca as part of the general agricultural contest in Morocco. Back in France, he takes up painting again and on the advice of the French painter and writer Jacques-Émile BLANCHE, develops his taste for portraiture. During the inter-war period, he was part of the Parisian intellectual society that he portrayed in painting. In 1932, he was elevated to the French a high distinction "Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur" (knight of the Legion of Honor). Mobilized in 1939 when the Second World War broke out, he was captain of the 248th Infantry Regiment and was captured at Saint-Lô (Frontstalag 131) before being deported to Germany, then released after the 1940 armistice. He will return to painting portrait and landscape until 1976 where he died in Paris on January 30. His studio and his collections will be auctioned at Drouot in Paris, April 8 and 9, 1976. Another sale of part of his studio will be resold at the same place on January 23, 2018.