Marius Hubert Robert - Oil On Canvas - View Of The Ruins On The Hills Of Athens - Period 20

OIL ON CANVAS MOUNTED ON STRONG CARDBOARD SIGNED AND LOCATED "MARIUS HUBERT ROBERT - ATHENS - VIEW OF THE RUINS OF A TEMPLE ON THE HEIGHTS OF ATHENS - IN ITS ORIGINAL JUICE - FRAME SIZE 42 X 55 CM - Marius Hubert-Robert (born in Paris on June 10, 1885 and died on March 14, 1966 in Nice) is an orientalist painter and illustrator. Biography He exhibited in particular at the Salon des Indépendants in 1929 [1], at the Artistes Français, at the Société Nouvelle des Beaux Arts, at the Salon d'Hiver. Painter to the 10th Army during the 1914-18 war, Marius Hubert Robert gave 2 of his war works to the Musée du Luxembourg. Among his other main exhibitions, we can mention: Paris, Galerie Charpentier From Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (1926), Under the Sign of the Sun, North Africa (1928) The Mediterranean Basin (1931), Galerie Petit, Hôtel de la Duchesse de Rohan, Galerie Mona Lisa in ParisLondon: The Mansion House, Alpin ClubUSA: New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Cleveland, BuffaloCanada: Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, VictoriaBrazil: Rio de JaneiroArgentina: Buenos Aires, Rosario de Santa FeIn addition, exhibitions in Athens, Zurich, Munich, Algiers, and Beirut. All these exhibitions were inaugurated by their Excellencies the local ambassadors and consuls. He had as a patron for about ten years the Astor family who allowed him to travel extensively around the world and notably in the US and Canada, but also in Africa (Morocco and Egypt), Greece, and Indochina. He also collaborated with the newspaper "L'Illustration" (circa 1930-1938)Purchase of works Paris: 3 purchases from the State, purchase from the City of Paris, purchase from the War Museum, purchase from the Musée des Invalides, purchase from King Albert of Belgium, purchase from Mr. Millerand, President of the Republic, purchase from King Alfonso XIII of Spain. London: 3 purchases from HM Queen Mary. USA: Purchase from the Brooklyn Museum, the Allbright Museum in Buffalo, the Fuller Museum in Seattle, the Corcorean Museum in Washington. Argentina: purchases from the Museums of Buenos Aires and Rosario. Works Louis Bertrand, The Mediterranean, photographs by Fred. Boissonnas, watercolors by Marius Hubert-Robert, Éditions Alpina, Paris, 1929 "Northern Spain and Southern Spain" by Octave Aubry, (Arthaud, 30 watercolors) Indochina by Robert Chauvelot (Arthaud 15 watercolors) François Gébelin "The Castles of the Loire", (7 watercolors), Éditions Alpina, Paris, 1936From the Sphinx to the Cross (Arthaud, 7 watercolors), Normandy, Basque Country, The Face of Jerusalem, Lebanon and Syria, Tunisia, Morocco (Éditions Arthaud). Series of works reproduced in color in L'IllustrationFrom Alaska to Tierra del FuegoNorth AfricaPérigordBrazil (1926-1930)One Hundred Canadian Voyages (Toronto Star Weekly") for which Marius Hubert-Robert was a contributor for several years. Color reproductions in This Week, Rotary Magazine, London Illustrated News, etc.