"The Harvest / Van Den Bussche"
A student at the Beaux Arts in Lille, he was mobilized in 1914. A prisoner in the Baltic, he joined his family who had taken refuge in Marseille. He fell in love with the city immediately, and Van den Bussche never stopped painting the Phocaean city and its surroundings, with a broad brushstroke and a palette knife, for a clientele that remained attached to him. His favorite themes were, of course, seascapes, tartans, and the pine, the emblematic tree of the Provençal coast. They placed him in the same pictorial movement as his contemporaries Mattio, Hurard, Bonamici. A rare harvest scene for this artist. Beautiful recent frame.