Faget Germain Large Oil On Panel: Waves At Tipaza, Seascape

Faget Germain Pierre Bordeaux 1890 – Algiers 1961.
This painter trained at the Bordeaux School of Decorative Arts.
He exhibited very often in Paris and Algiers; Algiers is mentioned in 1932 and 1934 at the Algerian Orientalist Artists' Salon and in 1938 in the Salmson automobile hall.
His paintings representing waves are often located in Tipaza, two of them decorated the grand salon of the El Kantara ocean liner. He is recognized as a "painter of the sea."
Alfred Cazes, journalist in the Oran-matin magazine, indicates "it is above all the infinite mobility of the waves that seduces and retains him, his swells have a soul, his firmaments a language."

Very important oil on panel worked with a knife.
Solid wood frame, regilded 141 X 51 cm, panel 129 X 39 cm
circa 1930.
Very good condition.