Herbo Fernand (1905-1995) - Countryside Scene With A Carriage - Oil On Wood Signed

HERBO Fernand (1905-1995) Countryside scene with a carriage Oil on wood (Isorel) - see photo signed lower left. Frame size: 43 cm x 34.5 cm Size of the work: 32.5 cm x 24 cm Good condition (Some cracks) see photos Fernand Herbo is a painter from Montmartre established in Honfleur (Calvados), born in Orchies in 1905, and died in Honfleur in 1995). In his youth in Montmartre, Fernand Herbo created posters, theater and cinema sets, and rubbed shoulders with the painters Maurice de Vlaminck and Othon Friesz. In 1938, Herbo left Paris and settled permanently in Honfleur. His powerful work, imbued with dark colors, dedicated to the sea, boats and ports, earned him the appointment of painter of the French Navy in 1944. It was from this date that the traditional anchor of the Painters of the Navy was affixed to his signature. In 1945, the State acquired his work Le quai de Jemmapes (1942), and attributed it to the Musée national d'art moderne at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. In the early 1950s, Fernand Herbo met the French gallery owner and poet Katia Granoff, who exhibited him in her new gallery in Honfleur. Katia Granoff, a great talent scout (she exhibited and revealed Marc Chagall and Othon Friesz, among others, and encouraged the rediscovery of Claude Monet's Water Lilies series), thus introduced the Seine Estuary School, of which Fernand Herbo was one of the representatives. Fernand Herbo and his wife Micheline opened the Bar des Artistes in Honfleur in 1952 (now the Bistrot des Artistes), whose ceiling was entirely decorated by Herbo and above which was his studio. The Bar des Artistes then became a meeting place for Honfleur's painters. Fernand Herbo created more than 1,000 works, mainly oil paintings and watercolors. A privileged setting for his painting, the town of Honfleur paid tribute to him by naming one of its quays after him. He died in 1995, and several of his works are exhibited at the Eugène Boudin Museum in Honfleur, where a room bears his name. The town of Honfleur named a quay in the town after him. The Eugène Boudin Museum in Honfleur houses 23 paintings by Fernand Herbo.