Fortuné Car 1905/1970, Martigues, Provence, French Riviera, Southern France

Signed: bottom right; Fortuné Car, a listed and highly regarded artist.
Oil painting on hardboard panel, in very good condition.
Subject: view of Martigues and its fishermen, Provence, French Riviera, Southern France.
Period: circa 1950/60.
Dimensions: with frame 108 x 58 cm - painting 100 x 50 cm.
Frame: original wooden frame, in good condition.

Fortuné Car 1905/1970:
Fortuné Car was born in 1905 in Marseille and died in 1970.
A celebrated Provençal artist, born into a family where painting was passed down from generation to generation. In the 1930s, he took over his uncle's workshop, a theater set designer.
This large workshop allowed him to create sets, and he then turned to easel painting. He quickly found his niche in the Provençal style of painting. , with its scenes of fishermen.
His strong and colorful painting, enriched by a beautiful texture born from his mastery of the brush and especially the palette knife. His image as a painter of Provence was exported, particularly to Canada where he was a member of the Royal Academy of Painting of Montreal.

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Painting on view at our gallery in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (France), on weekends.
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