The Countryside In Provence By Antoine Serra

A beautiful, large oil on canvas measuring 60 cm x 73 cm, plus frame 78 cm x 90 cm
signed lower right A.SERRA
Painting depicting a corner of Provence in thesummer heat
Antoine SERRA was born in 1908 in Sardinia to a very poor family
Arriving in Marseille at the age of 6, he had to start working at a very young age to support himself
He enrolled at the École des Beauxand won numerous prizes
Politically active, he went to Spain to fight against Franco
A proletarian painter, after the war he joined the group centered around Ambrogiani, Toncini, Ferrari, Sari, Diana, etc... 
One day, unable to shake it, he felt a magnetic attraction to the Alpilles, which he discovered by chance during a trip, marveling at “landscapes enveloped in a light that magnifies their forms.” He then decided to settle in this region, which he did in 1946 by purchasing an old farmhouse, which he renovated over the years—the “Mas du Diable,” located at the foot of Les Baux-de-Provence.
He spent the last fifteen years of his life in Mouriès, a small Provençal village in the heart of the Alpilles, in a farmhouse he had restored. He died on May 6, 1995, at the age of 87.
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