Emile Bouneau (1902-1970) , "la Forêt De Fontainebleau", Oil On Canvas Signed

Émile Bouneau, "La Forêt De Fontainebleau", oil on canvas signed lower left.

Émile Joseph Bouneau was born on February 7, 1902 at 37, rue Saint-Michel in Avignon. After being a student at the École des beaux-arts d'Avignon, Émile Bouneau followed, from 1919 to 1925, courses at the École nationale supérieure des arts decoratifs in Paris. In 1928, he made a long stay in San Francisco.
On April 22, 1933, Émile Bouneau married Solange Blanc in Paris. The Abd-el-Tif prize, which he won with André Hamburg in the same year 1933, earned him a two-year stay at the Abd-el-Tif villa in Algiers. If he paints views of Algiers and its region (the archaeological site of Tipaza), his painting tells us that he went as far as Fez. A very young writer who was interested in art, Albert Camus, then gave articles on painting to the Alger Student magazine and, naturally frequenting the Abd-el-Tif villa, cited Émile Bouneau among the remarkable painters of his time . According to Élisabeth Cazenave, the two men became friends.
During the Spanish Civil War, Émile Bouneau volunteered in the Republican camp.

Émile Bouneau painted nudes, portraits (like a Vincent whose dedication indicates that he went to Saint-Brevin-les-Pins in 1947) and especially landscapes, his favorite subject having been the forest of Fontainebleau , offering Jean-Pierre Delarge to place him in the continuation of the Barbizon School, with however a finesse of line and flat areas which can go so far as to give a sensation of vagueness which, constituting his personality, detaches him from classic painting to place it in modernity.

Died in 1970, Émile Bouneau is an artist who,  noticed gallery owners and critics of his time, cited by Roger Bezombes among the remarkable actors of exoticism in art, crossed with discretion the 20th century and is nevertheless representative of it. A retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him in Paris in 1982.

You can admire his works:
Avignon, Calvet museum: Fontainebleau Forest.
Cagnes-sur-Mer, Château Grimaldi: The clown.
Paris :
National Library of France: Portrait of Charles Panzéra, drawing; Portrait of Madeleine Baillot (Madame Charles Panzéra), drawing.
Paris Museum of Modern Art19.
National Museum of Modern Art: Head of a boy, 1929, drawing, 39 × 24 cm; Parade (the clown), 1931, oil on canvas, 146 × 89 cm.
Puteaux, National Contemporary Art Fund: works deposited at the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, the Paris National Opera and the Court of Auditors.

This glimpse of the Fontainebleau forest, in the warm, pink tones of the sunset, almost seems to float before the viewer like a chimerical vision.
The painting is on first canvas and well preserved, without restorations. There is an old torn exhibition label on the frame. It has its original frame.

Measures
canvas cm 61 x 51
frame cm 74 x 60

For any information do not hesitate to call us at 0039 380 43 79 898. We answer every day. We speak French.
Our team takes care of carefully packing each object by building custom-made wooden crates. Transportation takes place via our accredited carriers.
Payments accepted:
bank transfer
credit card nexi pay-by-link
Paypal