Jean Louis Beaupuy (1896-1974) Landscape Of Madagascar, Road To Ambositra Around 1930

Louis-Jean Beaupuy 1896-1974), Landscape of Madagascar in Ranomena Malagasy locality, on the road to Ambositra oil on canvas, size 61cm by 27cm without the frame and 72cm by 37cm with, good condition.
Biography Louis-Jean Beaupuy was born on November 15, 1896 in Elbeuf (Seine-Maritime). In 1915, he lived in Castres. He was mobilized in 1915 as a private 2nd class during the First World War. On December 16, 1917, it was recognized that he presented a convex deviation to the right of the spine, and in 1921, that he suffered from a remnant of lumbar Pott's disease and that his general condition was deficient. He married on October 30, 1923 in Paris with Louise Fernande Bouyeron, a musical artist born in Castres (Tarn). He was then 26 years old. Three years later, on January 1, 1926, she gave birth to their son Pierre Beaupuy. In 1934, they divorced. It was on May 12, 1974 that Louis-Jean Beaupuy died in Saint-Privat-des-Prés (Dordogne). Louis-Jean Beaupuy was a pupil of Fernand Cormon at the Beaux-Arts in Paris where he received several diplomas. In 1930, he received the silver medal from the Society of French Artists. He exhibited in 1932 at the Salon des Artistes Français. He won a scholarship in 1931 to travel to Madagascar, then another in 1934 to travel to French Equatorial Africa. He exhibited several times at the Colonial Salon of French Artists in the 1930s.