Roland Chanco (1914-2017) "maryline" Very Large Painting Oil On Canvas

Important oil painting on canvas signed by Roland CHANCO (1914-2017) depicting a post-cubist composition with expressionist tendencies, titled on the back "Maryline" and countersigned by the artist as well as the inventory stamp in the artist's catalogue raisonné (see photo). Good condition, dimensions 1 m 30 high X 97 cm wide

Roland Chanconnier, known as Chanco, was born in 1914 in Reignac in Touraine (30 km from our Gallery). When one reaches the age of +100, one generally rests from a busy life, but he continued to paint, as he always did and without constraint, his first works date from the 1920s, after his first successes in Tours where he received the first prize, he went to Paris around 1930 and worked for a time on sculpture with Marcel Gimond > it was the golden age of Montmartre, he then frequented the studios of Edmond Heuzé and Gen-Paul, his acquaintances at the time were called Utrillo, Suzanne Valadon or Picasso (in front of his works the Catalan painter is full of praise, congratulating "a very personal style", made of "the same passion" and "fury to create »