Lucien Mignon Rose Bouquet Impressionist 1930

Oil on canvas depicting a vase of roses signed lower right Lucien Mignon and dated 1930. Montparnasse frame carved wood openwork. Dimensions of the painting 47x38,5 cm. Overall dimensions, with frame, 65x56 cm. Lucien Mignon, born September 13, 1865 in Château-Gontier (Mayenne), died March 13, 1944 in Paris, painter of genre scenes, portraits, nudes, landscapes, still lifes, flowers and fruits, draftsman. He began his drawing studies in Angers before coming to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a student of Gérôme. He appeared in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants and the National Society of Fine Arts from 1910. He won the Berton Prize of 1920. He was awarded decorations at the Ministry of Public Works: The Four Seasons. Sensitive artist, he was honored for many years by the friendship of Renoir, with whom he worked in Cagnes, and to which he resembles, at the time of the so-called "ingresque" period of Renoir. He wanted to "combine the color of the Impressionists with the drawing of Ingres".