Adolphe Keller (1880-1968) The Port Of Cassis In 1939

The lively, cheerful atmosphere of the small fishing portthat was Cassis in the 1930s, with fishermen busy unshackling andtheir nets or repairing their creels in a colorful and festive atmospherecolorful and festive despite the harshness of their work.
The imposing work is presented in a Louis XIV-style gilded frameLouis XIV style, measuring 96 cm by 118 cm on a 73 cm by 92 cm canvas.
In good condition, it is signed and dated 1939 lower left.lower left.
A lively work, with a modern, colorful touch,

Belgian painter, draftsman, watercolorist and pastellist, student of P. Braeke and HenriOttevaere at the Académie de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and later a pupilAcadémie de Bruxelles (1897).
At the beginning of the 20th century, he set uphis studio in Nieuport, which was destroyed during the Firstdestroyed during the First World War.
He then left the Belgian coast for the South of France,settling in Saint-Tropez in Provence, until the outbreak of the Second World War.
In 1939, he settled in Rouge-Cloîtrewhere he painted the Soignes forest.
He was sensitive to light,like the Brabant Impressionists.
He was president of the AlfredBastien circle and is a friend of Paul Delvaux.
Predilection for landscapes, woods, still lifes, genregenre paintings and flowers.
International fame came to himadmirable landscapes.
Auderghem, the town where he lived for a long time, avenue Théo Vanpé no. 19, dedicated a street to him on September 28, 1934.