"still Life With Two Loaves Of Bread" By André Charigny (1902-2000)

17:00 0111 A leading figure in 20th-century Franche-Comté art, André Auguste Charigny (1902-2000) painted Franche-Comté like no other, with a keen sense of light. Initially trained by Alexandre Lavalley (1862-1927), winner of the 1891 Prix de Rome for painting, the young Parisian Charigny discovered nature in the Eure region as early as 1916. After his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he discovered the Jura, his future adopted home, thanks to the creator of the Courbet Museum in Ornans. His work was honored with a series of distinctions: he received the Rosa Bonheur Prize from the Société des Artistes Français in 1936, as well as the gold medal from the same society in 1931, the silver medal in 1930, and the bronze medal in 1928. At the Salon, he also received the Robert de Rougé Prize (for a painter of figures in the classical style) in 1930, the Eugène-Romain Thirion Prize (for a figure painter) in 1932, and the James Bertrand Prize (for a history painter) in 1943. In 1934, he received a travel grant. In 1945, he resided at 144 Avenue Emile-Zola in Paris. In the Île-de-France region, he also lived at La Maladrerie in Beynes, Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines), near Rambouillet. In 1947, he became a member of the jury for the Salon des Artistes Français. In 2002, to mark the centenary of the painter's birth, a major retrospective was organized at the Chapelle des Annonciades in Pontarlier. In 2010, the Château de Belvoir, owned by the painter Jouffroy, a renowned Courbet specialist, presented an André Charigny retrospective entitled "Exquisite Sketches." Charigny's work is part of the permanent collection of the Pontarlier Museum. Oil on canvas, signed upper right. Dimensions: 54 x 65 cm; framed: 73 x 84 cm