Watercolor - Avignon - Louis Agricol Montagné

Louis Agricol Montagné (Avignon, 1879 - Paris, 1960) is a French painter and watercolorist, student of Paul Saïn and Fernand Cormon. Here is a beautiful original watercolor representing the edge of a river animated by a man and his horse, probably in the vicinity of Avignon. Watercolor on paper glued at the edge against a cardboard box Beautiful format 61.3 X 46.2 cm Signed lower right. Work in good condition, note some light scattered foxing see photos. Deframed. I can be reached for any requests. Very careful delivery flat in rigid cardboard. Biography At a very young age, he collaborated in 1900 with Paul Saïn on the decoration of the restaurant Le Train bleu at the Gare de Lyon in Paris. He exhibited in Paris at the Salon d'Automne in 1901 and was declared out of competition in 1911, which earned him a travel grant. Appointed knight of the Legion of Honor, he was made an officer in 19322. Living in Paris and in the village of Angles, at the Château de Pontmartin, he was a member of the Group of Thirteen and the new group of regional artists. Montagné was appointed director of the Avignon School of Fine Arts from 1920 to 1928 and curator of the Villeneuve-lès-Avignon museum. He illustrates with twenty watercolors the book by André Hallays, Avignon published in 1928 by Henri Babou. He heads several organizations such as the Committee for the Preservation of Sites and Monuments of Vaucluse, the Association of French Landscapers and the Association of French Watercolorists. He founded the Water Drawing and Painting Salon.