Henri Pontoy (1888-1968) The Young Moroccan Woman And Her Child (eastern Morocco)

Henri Pontoy (1888-1968) oil on panel signed lower right the young woman and her child on a landscape background. Perfect general condition Delivery 30 euros Work guaranteed authentic Henri Pontoy entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the studio of Luc-Olivier Merson, and exhibited his engravings at the Salon des Artistes Français, and his paintings at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, at the Salon d'Automne, as well as at the Salon des Artistes Orientalistes Algerians. In 1926, he received a travel grant from the Colonial Society of French Artists which allowed him to travel to North Africa, notably to Tunisia where he became a member of the Tunisian Salon the same year, to then go to Morocco and French West Africa. He lived for several years around 1930 in Ouarzazate where he met the painter Jacques Majorelle. He became a professor of arts and literature at the Moulay Idriss high school in Fez. He was awarded the Grand Prix de la ville d'Alger in 1933. He returned after the Second World War, in 1947, with Majorelle, to Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Cameroon. He won the Cameroon Prize in 1951. His fresh, airy palette of warm colors, both in oils and watercolors, has always met with great success. He is one of the last French representatives of Orientalism, reaching its peak in the interwar period.