Marc Chailloux (1902-1971) Squares Platin Beach St-palais/sea. Charente Balande Bron Suire

SUPERB oil/canvas by Marc Chailloux representing squares on Platin beach in Saint Palais sur mer in Charente Maritime, circa 1950, signed lower left + located on the back. Format of the canvas alone without frame 38x55cm. Magnificent post-impressionist composition by Marc Chailloux who paints here his heart region, Charente Maritime and more precisely the Platin beach in St Palais sur mer with its famous squares, which he animates in addition to several bathers and characters. Made around 1940/1950, Chaillous uses his usual technique, that is to say oil applied with a knife, rich in material, as well as in colors thanks to a very subtle palette where sky blues, greens, browns, orange, red, ocher or Sienna. He likes to paint his region, Charente and even more often the coast with Royan and its surroundings, but also the islands of Oléron and Ré, La Rochelle of course, but also Cognac, Saintes or Angoulême. Because Marc, sometimes called Max, was born in Saintes in 1902 and died in Angoulême in 1971. He will be part of the Charentaise school alongside Suire, Balande, Charlopeau, Langlade, Bron, Chevalier, etc... But Marc Chailloux will also part of the traveling / Africanist painters, because it will bring back splendid views of Black Africa or genre scenes and portraits of Africans, today very popular with amateurs, just look at its auction results. This canvas is in perfect condition, delivered in its Montparnasse style frame with period gray patina. Guaranteed authentic work