André Herviault (1884-1969) Factory In Kankan Guinea Africa 1949. Africanist Saintes Nivelt

Superb large gouache on paper by André Herviault signed and dated 1949 twice lower right + located on the back "Factorerie à Kankan, Guinée. Format of the gouache alone without frame 37x53cm and 51x67cm frame included. This is therefore a magnificent Africanist composition by André Herviault, which represents the factorerie of Kankan in Guinea in 1949. He uses here gouache, one of his favorite techniques, as often he animates many characters his composition, thanks to a very powerful touch and of course his usual palette made of ochres, intense greens, blues, and subtle touches of red, orange etc... Very beautiful work, very typical of the work of Herviault. Herviault is a painter that I like a lot, I have already proposed many works of this artist, some of which were bought by the museum of Saintes where he will spend a large part of his life outside of his African travels. Because André Herviault is one of the greatest French Africanist painters, as Lynne Thornton points out in her various works, the most famous of which is "The Africanists, Traveling Painters: 1860-1960" where Herviault is widely represented. André Herviault, born March 23, 1884 in Nantes (Loire-inférieure, now Loire-Atlantique), and died July 10, 1969 in Saintes (Charente-Maritime), is a French painter. André Herviault studied with Fernand Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was sent to Togo by the Ministry of Colonies and brought back 18 works which were exhibited at the Salon of the Colonial Society of French Artists. His painting of a seaside Conca Marini, Amalfi dating from around 1923 is kept at the Musée d'Orsay. He painted many representations of life in Africa during the colonial period including Scene of Daily Life in a Village from Central Africa exhibited at the 1931 International Colonial Exhibition, which shows primitive huts made of beaten earth and with straw roofs, typical of Togo, around tropical vegetation. Beyond the ethnographic concern, it nevertheless implies the "apologetic vision of a France civilizing the extra-Western colonial world." A specialist in this type of representation and having made frequent trips to Africa, he received the French Equatorial Africa Prize and then the French West Africa Prize. Several of his works, including The Topographer, also shown at the Colonial Exhibition, were exhibited in 2018 at the Musée du quai Branly as part of the "Paintings of the Faraway Places" exhibition. He gives an idealized representation of well-organized work flown over by a biplane, whereas in 1927 and 1928 the writer André Gide and then the journalist Albert Londres had given a completely different description. This gouache is in Good condition, slight creases in the paper can be seen in places, greatly exaggerated by the photos and not detrimental to the work; however, it will be possible to have the support re-stretched because it is in its original state and has not been unframed. Delivered in a very beautiful old frame in natural solid wood. Work guaranteed authentic