The Martigues - Edmond Tapissier (1861-1943)

Oil on panel, signed lower right, located on the back "Martigues evening" with the number "n 17910". In its original setting, vintage late nineteenth early twentieth. Edmond Tapissier, born in Lyon, took his first drawing lessons in his hometown, a friend of Courbet and Manet, then left for Paris, followed the courses of the Julian Academy and entered the Fine Arts at Cabanel and Cormon. It is the period of portraits tinged with symbolism, which he exhibited at the Salon and well decanted landscapes of the South. He reported in 1919, many watercolors of a trip to Italy, Greece and the Middle East in the company of Charles Fouqueray and Auguste Matisse. His paintings are then halfway between the solidities of the classical order and the Impressionist liberties. He works for the Gobelins, Beauvais and Aubusson factories. But it is undoubtedly his small paintings, his landscapes that keep the spontaneous freshness of the sketch, that fans today give their preference. Dimensions: with the frame: length: 52 cm, height: 39 cm Without the frame: length: 46 cm, height: 33.5 cm.