Bretonnes In The Fish Conserveries In Finistere By John Recknagel

Beautiful and large drawing representing the interior of the fish factories in Finistere by the American painter John Recknagel (1870-1950) The work is monogrammed JR on the lower right and dated 1900. 47/32 cm 63/46 cm with frame BIOGRAPHY Born in 1970 in Brooklyn (Neaw-York). Died in 1940 in Fouesnant (Finistère). Since 1899 active and especially 1920 active in France.Americain. Painter of portraits, landscapes, pastellist, postimpressionist. At the age of 14, he was introduced to art in New York and was a student of the Academy of Arts in Stuttgart. In about 1890 he was a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1899, a trip to Concarneau made him discover Brittany with fervor; he stayed there every year and in 1906 had a house built in Fouesnant to settle there permanently from 1920. His portraits, particularly of young women, in oil or pastel, show a surprising ease and whose virtuosity places him between Impressionism and Boldini. Landscape painter, he treated the landscapes of Brittany, from which he seized the mysterious mists and the fundamentally nostalgic character. In his views of New York, he has adapted to the great modern city the poetry of the shimmering colors of Impressionism.