Surroundings Of Les Baux De Provence By Michel Jouenne 1933-2021

Very beautiful and large oil on canvas measuring 73cm x 54cm plus frame 93cm x 74cm signed lower right Titled and countersigned on the back Michel JOUENNE is a very great contemporary painter his paintings are already in Museums Jouenne is considered a master of modern figurative painting and the material he works with a brush and knife. Son of an engineer and a porcelain decorator at the Manufacture de Sèvres, Michel Jouenne studied at the Claude-Bernard high school in Paris. He produced his first gouaches in 1947, and two years later made his debut at the Salon de Versailles by presenting three gouaches, one of which received an award. In 1955, he passed the competition to become a drawing teacher in the city of Paris. In 1956, he produced his first oils. In September 1957, Michel Jouenne married Simone Baril, with whom he had three boys: Christian, François and Bernard. That year, he produced many still lifes with game and poultry. In 1958, he was called up for military service and did fourteen months of military service in Kabylie (Algeria) where he produced sketches. In 1961, he joined the group of artists L'Atelier de Ville-d'Avray with Bernard Conte. In 1969, he participated for the first time in the Salon des peintres témoins de leur temps, whose theme that year was "Research and discovery of modern science". A drawing teacher at the Collège des Ormaux in Fontenay aux roses (Hauts de Seine) in the 1970s. Jouenne was appointed painter of the Navy in 1991. His closest painter colleagues included Maurice Boitel, Daniel du Janerand, Louis Vuillermoz, Pierre-Henry, Jean Carzou, André Hambourg, Emilio Grau Sala, Jean Monneret, Rodolphe Caillaux and Paul Collomb. free shipping for the European Union 350 euros for International