River Landscape By Maurice Chabas

Oil on canvas depicting a landscape with trees along a river , a village and the bell tower of its church in the background ,the whole in the bluish atmosphere of dawn. Signed Maurice Chabas. France, circa 1900.
Very good condition, dimensions excluding frame: 55.5cmx46.5cm.(21.65inx18.11in)Dimensions with frame:24.40inx20.86inX1.96in
                       
Maurice Chabas (1862-1947) is a French symbolist painter. A prolific artist, both an easel painter and a monumental painter. He began at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1885, where he exhibited his works until 1913. There he discovered Puvis de Chavanne, who would have a decisive influence on his creations. At the same time, he created monumental decorations for town halls and train stations. Then, a sensitive and mystical artist, he moved, after 1914, towards a stylistic simplification subject to spiritual and cosmic thought, which led to total abstraction circa1920.