Jeff Friboulet (1919-2003), Spanish Children, Oil On Canvas Signed

Spanish Children by Jeff FRIBOULET, Oil on canvas signed top left. Titled and dated on the back. Émile Jean Jules Friboulet, known as Jef Friboulet, a painter from Fécamp, went through life inexorably drawing the colors of his paintings from life with this constant concern to create. His cheerful mood hides a difficult childhood in Fécamp since he was the son of a Newfoundland sailor. The hostile sea then steals his father's place. He discovered reading and drawing at the port's local school and joined the scouts, whose values would remain deeply rooted in him throughout his life. He entered the active world at the age of 12 and anticipated the military call at 20 by enlisting in the 104th Aviation Regiment at Le Bourget, where his initials would give him his name. JeF would become a photographer and painter in the army. Returning to civilian life after the war, he became a bus driver and, as an autodidact, he used his free time to practice the art of painting, techniques learned from other artists. From 1948, Jef Friboulet exhibited regularly in Upper Normandy and his painting asserted itself more and more until he created his own expressionism where the material and the line reinforce the nobility of man in his most banal work. This earned him his first honors in 1950 with the Grand Prix d'Automne in Monaco. He subsequently received numerous awards. He worked and exhibited throughout his life throughout the world (Roubais, Fecamp, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo, etc.) and his works are present in many museums. Shipping possible anywhere in the world.