Market Day In Front Of The Old Market Halls Of Concarneau By Fernand Le Gout-gérard - Brittany

Oil on canvas, signed lower right.
Dimensions without frame 38 cm x 56 cm, with frame 48 cm x 66 cm.
Fernand Le Gout-Gérard (1854-1924) a student at the Saint-Lô college, he became a tax collector, like his father, authorized representative of the General Treasury of the Manche. But at 33, he decided to abandon his profession for painting. He discovered Concarneau around 1890 and returned there for more than forty years. Member of the National Society of Fine Arts and the Pastel Society of London, he was appointed painter of the Navy in 1900. He settled permanently in Concarneau in 1903, his house, the famous villa Ty Ker Moor, became a meeting place for the painters of Concarneau. He painted markets, fairs, people returning from fishing. Painter of silhouettes, he sketched women in headdresses, children. He is the favorite painter of lovers of everyday scenes and picturesque scenes. The artist often depicts Brittany. He is now one of the best-known painters of the Concarneau group.