Young Woman Doing Picot - Louis-marie Désiré-lucas - Brittany

Dimensions: unframed 46 x 38 cm, with frame 58 x 50 cm.
Oil on canvas, signed lower left.
Small restoration on the back of the canvas.
Dedicated on the back "To my son André 1919"
Louis-Marie Désiré-Lucas (1869 - 1949):
He was born in Martinique to a Breton father, a Navy Commissioner, and a Creole mother. He spent his childhood in Brest. In 1889, he entered the Académie Julian and then the École des Beaux Arts where he was a student of Bouguereau, Robert-Fleury and Lefebvre thanks to a scholarship he obtained from the city of Brest. He exhibited for the first time at the "Salon des artistes français" in 1893. In 1899, he moved to Vannes with his wife Marguerite and focused on reproducing scenes of Breton life. His submissions to the "Salons" were noted. In 1901, the State bought "Bénédicité", his first painting, preserved at the Musée d'Orsay then "The Man of the Fields" in 1903. He left Vannes for Douarnenez in 1907, charmed by the place. His interest in Breton landscapes was not exclusive. In 1901, he obtained a travel grant which took him to Holland, Germany, Italy and Spain. The true goal of painting for Désiré-Lucas "is not the imitation of things, but the sensation that they suggest to us and their situation in space through the colored volume". Appointed a member of the institute, his talent as a "French artist" was recognized in France and abroad. He participated in exhibitions with Maurice Denis, Matisse, Cottet and many others...