Alphonse Léon Quizet (1885-1955) The Pre-saint-gervais

Alphonse Léon Quizet (1885-1955) le Pré-Saint-Gervais oil on panel, signed lower right 33x55cm 52x74cm framed Born in 1885 in Paris. Died in 1955 at Pré-Saint-Gervais. Painter of urban landscapes. He began to paint in 1903, self-taught, he trained by copying the old masters at the Louvre Museum. He was a friend of Maurice Utrillo, whom he guided in his beginnings around 1900. He exhibited in Paris, at the Salons of the National Society of Fine Arts, Independents, Autumn. In 1943, he executed five large decorative panels for the wedding hall of the town hall of Pré-Saint-Gervais Public collections Petit Palais Museum in Geneva: Granville, Richard Anacreon Museum, Saint-Brieuc, Museum of Art and History , Granville, Richard Anacréon museum, Marseille, fine arts museum,