Fernand Herbo (1905-1995) Crécy-en-brie, The Bichat Mill, 1937

Fernand Herbo (1905-1995) Crécy-en-Brie, le moulin Bichat, 1937. oil on canvas signed lower right 48x61cm Fernand Herbo; born in Orchies on March 28, 1905 and died in Équemauville near Honfleur on August 21, 19954. He was appointed painter of the French Navy in 1944. In the early 1950s, Fernand Herbo met the French gallery owner and poet Katia Granoff who exhibited his work in her new gallery in Honfleur. Katia Granoff, a great talent scout (she exhibited and revealed Marc Chagall and Othon Friesz, among others, and encouraged the rediscovery of Claude Monet's Water Lilies series) thus introduced the Seine Estuary School, of which Fernand Herbo was one of the representatives. Honfleur gave its name to a quay in the city, Le Mesnil-Esnard to a street. Public collections. Honfleur; Eugène-Boudin Museum (a room bears the artist's name), twenty-three paintings by Fernand Herbo. Paris; National Museum of Modern Art, The Quay of Jemmapes, oil on canvas, 1942. Dreux; Museum of Art and History, Place Métezeau on a Market Day, oil on canvas, 1936. Évreux Museum, Streetscape in the Snow, watercolor, 1938. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, The Port of Saint-Nazaire, oil on canvas