Roger Chapelain-midy 1904-1992 - Post Impressionism Landscape Oil Painting Signed And Framed

Original oil on embedded canvas, 65 cm x 54 cm, sold with its gilded wooden frame 76 cm x 65 cm, signed lower left Chapelain-Midy, dated 1927, and representing a landscape with trees and old building. It is possible that it is a garden in Morocco.
Painting in very good original condition.
Sold with a certificate invoice.
Roger Chapelain-Midy 1904-1992
Roger Chapelain, known as Roger Chapelain-Midy, born August 24, 1904 in Paris and died in the same city on March 30, 1992, was a French painter, lithographer, illustrator and stage designer. Roger Chapelain-Midy studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, then continued his artistic training in the painting academies of the Montparnasse district. Later, he became a professor foreman from 1955 to 1974. He exhibited in 1927 at the Salon d'Automne and from 1929 at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon des Tuileries. Armand Drouant in 1930 organizes his first exhibition in his gallery rue de Rennes in Paris. Fascinated by the Renaissance, the painting of Poussin and that of the 17th century, he defends a classical tradition, made of measure, in an era which saw the great upheavals of modern painting. He creates still lifes and landscapes. He travels a lot, both in Europe and in North and South America. He received the Carnegie Prize in 1938. He made wall decorations for the town hall of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, the foyer of the national theater of Chaillot, the Agronomic Institute of Paris, as well as decorations for ocean liners, including the France. A theater decorator and costume designer, from 1942, he notably worked for Les Indes galantes by Rameau in 1952, and for Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Paris Opera in 1954. The success of his work enabled him to work at the Cologne Opera. As such, he will receive the grand prize for theater at the Sao-Paulo international biennial in 1962. We also owe him illustrations for texts by Jean Giraudoux, André Gide, Charles Baudelaire, Fontenelle (Interviews on the plurality of worlds), Jean de La Fontaine, Charles Vildrac, Georges Simenon (The Rouet Window, 1945), etc. He illustrated the cover of La Chanson de Maguelonne by Michel Mourlet for the Round Table (1973). Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, then President of the French Republic, commissioned a Portrait of General de Gaulle from him for the Élysée Palace in Paris. In a late line of symbolism and surrealism, a whole part of his work bears the imprint of his spiritual preoccupations, materialized by the haunting recurrence of decorations and unusual objects such as checkerboard tiles, masks, mannequins and mirrors. In 1984, he published a collection of memories and reflections on art, Like the sand between the fingers. Roger Chapelain-Midy is buried in Nancray-sur-Rimarde (Loiret).