Oil Painting Mers El Kebir The Fort And The Bay Of Santa-cruz By Primitif Bono

Primitive BONO painter (1880-1955)

Evening in Oran (Mers el Kebir the fort and Santa-Cruz bay)

Oil on canvas

41,5x 92 cm

54x 105 cm framed

Signed lower right

Born in Brescia (Italy) in 1890.

Painter of typical scenes of Oranese life, portraits and landscapes, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was a member, from 1920 to 1929.

At the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, he studied with Thiébault and Pavée. A first exhibition in Oran, in 1923, revealed him to the public. he presented the Côte d'Azur: the Grotte auxnymphs (in Cannes), a street in Grasse, and views of the Côte oranaise. Coast.

In the magazine Oranof February 3, 1925, Alfred Cazes, speaking of an exhibition by Bono, remarks: "Mr Bono is from our region. He revealed to the Oranais, who were a little too ignorant of the grandiose beauty of their cliffs. The Cueva del Agua and its huge rocks were his theme served as a theme, from which he drew extraordinary variations..."

Bono also travels in southern Algeria and Morocco. His wife is also a painter under the name Bono-Dugelay

Source : Artists of Algeria, by Elisabeth Cazenave

Bernard Giovanangeli Editeur and Association Abd-el-Tif, 2001.