Louis Marie Désiré-lucas (1869-1949) A Street At Escarène (circa 1924-1930)

Louis Marie DESIRÉ-LUCAS (1869-1949) A street in L'Escarène (circa 1924-1930) Oil on canvas lower left 65x55 cm 85x72cm framed Louis-Marie Désiré-Lucas, born October 15, 1869 in Fort-de- France (Martinique) and died September 29, 1949 in Douarnenez is a French painter and lithographer. In 1889, he obtained a scholarship from the city of Brest which allowed him to enter the Académie Julian. Then he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Paris. He exhibited in 1893 at the Salon of French Artists. He moved to Vannes and endeavored to reproduce scenes of Breton life. He ended up leaving Vannes for Belz, then charmed by the place, settled in 1907 in Ploaré. He was mobilized in Amiens during the First World War. In 1920, he began work on the coasts and landscapes of the Côte-d'Azur, Spain, Italy and Belle-Ile-en-Mer. Désiré-Lucas received a medal of honor at the Salon of 1936. He was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts in 1943. Public collections: Paris, Musée d'Orsay: Le Bénédicité, around 1901, oil on canvas Quimper, musée des Beaux-Arts: The Procession, 1909, oil on canvas. Brest, Museum of Fine Arts: Péronne, Alfred-Danicourt Museum: Valparaíso, Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Valparaíso: Vannes, Museum of the Crowd: The Port of Camaret, 1830, oil on canvas.