Bandol Fountain The Salt Shaker 1931 By Ferdinand Chaumeau Provence

View of Bandol in Provence, mainly of the fountain "La Salière" under the palm trees in 1931 and around which vintage cars circulate. Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard signed lower left Ferchau for Ferdinand Chaumeau and dated 1931. On the back of the work is a label from the 24th Salon Berruyer in Bourges, Le Mouciau, an Association called "Association Amicale des Anciens Elèves de l'Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts et Arts appliqués à l'industrie de Bourges et Amis des Arts en Berry". Painting in very good condition. Note a slight crease in the canvas when mounted on the right edge. Dimensions of the work 46x37.5 cm Total dimensions, with frame, 55x46.5 cm Ferdinand CHAUMEAU, born in Bourges in 1885 and died in the same city in 1950, comes from a family of painters. He was a student at the School of Fine Arts in Bourges and then in Paris. Born in 1847, Father Jules passed on his vocation to his two sons Jules and Ferdinand, who were his students. Ferdinand's older brother, Jules Eugène, was born on July 11, 1878. A student of Gabriel Maréchal, after an apprenticeship at the School of Fine Arts in Bourges, he became a talented watercolorist. He chaired the Mouciau association until 1939. This artistic association of former students of the Bourges School of Fine Arts organized the Salon du Mouciau. His brother Jules regularly participated until 1933. A landscaper, Ferdinand Chaumeau nourished his painting with his many trips to Creuse, Dijon, Royan, Bandol, but also to Alsace and Berry. Brittany was also a source of inspiration; he painted there in the 1920s, notably in Douarnenez in Finistère.