Henri Alexis Schaeffer (1900-1975). Watercolor Of Place Du Tertre, Montparnasse In Paris, Scè

Beautiful watercolor representing the Place du Tertre in Paris. It is signed lower right A. Scheaffer, it is presented with a Marie-Louise and sold unframed. Henri Alexis Schaeffer, painter, illustrator born in Paris on August 9, 1900 and died on February 28, 1975 in Neuilly sur Seine. His father was an employee, his mother a seamstress, he married in 1921 Olga Toussaint, herself a painter. He will study painting under the leadership of Cormeron at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. He began his career in the 1930s with illustration, especially for young people with the editions of the "good press". He will illustrate several novels and collections of tales for Casteman. At his beginnings, he painted architectural studies of classical and religious monuments then he found his style by painting the grand boulevards as well as the Parisian districts with his cars, his gas-burner lamps, women in turn-of-the-century outfits. It has been said of him that he was "a painter of Paris from his childhood". He will be a member of the Salon des Artistes Français from 1934. He was very active from 1932 to 1964. Dimensions: 32 cm X 48 cm Shipping and protection costs 20 euros in metropolitan France, other destinations to consult us.