Gustave Lino (1893-1961) - Tipaza - Orientalist Drawing

TIPAZA - ALGERIE Original drawing in watercolor by Gustave LINO (1893-1961) Orientalist painter of the group called "Painters of Poetic Reality", close friend of Albert Marquet (Marcelle Marquet will say of him that "he succeeded the Marquet better than Marquet himself "). Also commendable, Albert Camus said of Gustave Lino (at the Salon of Algerian artists of 1934): "His Marines, if we feel the influence of Marquet, are nonetheless real successes, sensitive, fresh and of one coming ". All this in the respect of this artistic movement which, as writes E. Cazenave: "to an Orientalism dreamed Artists of Algeria oppose a lived orientalism". His palette is particularly colorful, often linear, with a predilection for the blues, taking as a reason all the towns and villages visited. *** Signed and located at the bottom left Dimensions 19 x 24 cm Old drawing in a good state of conservation - View photo