Jef Friboulet (1919-2003) Fishermen At The Quay

Large Art Deco painting oil on canvas signed by the artist Jef FRIBOULET (1919-2003) depicting an Expressionist composition depicting fishermen at the quay, probably located in Yport in Normandy, a place praised by the artist. Period frame in gilded wood. Good general condition: 82 cm X 72 cm / on view: 65 cm X 55 cm. See photo No. 12 Artprice sales results between 1400 => 4900 € for works with a similar format. Jef Friboulet was born in Fécamp in 1919. He began exhibiting in 1942. In the 1950s he developed a very personal expressionism, after the Second World War he met many artists including Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck and René de Saint-Delis. He received the Grand Prix d'Automne 1950 in Monaco, he will then impose his own vision of expressionism based on a restricted palette of colors and a radical juxtaposition of shadows and lights. In 1954, on the occasion of an exhibition in the capital, Jef Friboulet received the Paris Painter's Prize. "It's a bit like the Goncourt of painters" this award allowed him to land a first contract with a gallery on Boulevard Haussman. Jef Friboulet's talent led him to exhibit throughout the country, as well as internationally: Russia, Japan, the United States..., closer to us, Paris, the South, the Benedictine Palace of Fécamp. His friends the true as a deeply humanist in art and his main themes and sources of inspiration will be: the individual, the work of fishing, of the land, as well as Spain which will have marked his work. He was also very religious, he signed biblical paintings. He offered a Stations of the Cross in Yport, the town where he settled until the end of his life, in the manor of another artist, Jean-Paul Laurens, after leaving Fécamp. His paintings were included in the homage to the post-impressionist painters of the Rouen School and the artist was still exhibited in the orangery of the Senate in Paris.