Victor Cuguen (1882-1969) Fishermen Ravauding Their Nets

Pretty colors and a beautiful material for this work of the painter Louis Victor Cuguen born in Pontorson in the Manche but from Toulon by adoption. The work, in its good original condition, is offered in a pretty Montparnasse frame in carved wood which measures 35 cm by 40 cm, and 22 cm by 27 cm without the frame. It depicts fishermen by the sea unraveling or mending their nets. It is signed lower right. Son of a railway worker, he will paint his native region between Pontorson, Mont Saint Michel, from Normandy to Brittany. He then moved to Toulon where he became a drawing teacher and a member of the Society of Friends of the Arts. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1922 to 1940 and at the Salons des artistes Normands and Salons des artistes français from 1925 as well as in various Parisian and provincial galleries. He became known for his exclusive use of the palette knife. His works are kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Saint-Lô.