Marseille Landscape Painting, Provençal School, Le Mas, Painting Signed Fortuné Car, 1905-1970

Oil on hardboard 22 cm x 16 cm, sold with its gilded frame 29 cm x 24 cm, from the 1950s, signed lower right Louis Fortuné Car representing a Provençal farmhouse. Perfect condition. Sold with invoice-certificate. Louis Fortuné Car 1905-1970. Famous Provençal artist, born in Marseille in a family where painting is passed down from generation to generation. In the 1930s, he took over the workshop of his uncle, a theater designer. This vast workshop will allow him to create sets, he then turns to easel painting. He will very quickly find his way in the vein of Provençal painting, with his scenes of fishermen. His strong and colorful painting enriched with a beautiful material born from his mastery of the brush and especially the knife. His image as a painter of Provence was exported in particular to Canada where he was a member of the Royal Academy of Painting in Montreal.