Brondy Matteo (1866-1944): "boats Docked In St. Tropez" Vieille Tour - La Ponche

BRONDY Matteo (1866-1944)

"The boats docked in St. Tropez"

Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Exhibited at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris

The work presented demonstrates the artist's passage in the village of Saint- Tropez: his talent is mastered and colors are remarkably hot, marked by Fauvism. A fisherman's wife, who is in the process of mending nets in his boat, comes to decorate the composition of the table by providing a picturesque touch of fishermen's lives.

Student at the Académie Julian in Paris, the great masters Jules Lefevre, Tony Robert-Fleury and Rochegrosse, he left the shop once in possession of his technique. Independent artist, loving life, travels, he painted only for fun. He visited Italy, followed by Black Africa where too powerful light does not seduce him. The assignments of the war led him to North Africa, Morocco, and especially in Meknes. It sets in Morocco, Algeria and Paris.

Mattéo Brondy confesses in a letter: "I consider painting to be the image of life and establish the best she can the beautiful scenes that charm us, for assisting in the light to emphasize the effects and make them unalterable in our memory. And what is true for the big outdoor scenes is not least for the interior scenes where sieved light effects to make them more involved concourrent feel calm and serenity that we although we feel when we visit a medina. "

It is in love with painting and places that the subjugated he painted landscapes, everyday scenes with remarkable talent and he scribbled on his sketchpad.

Artist known primarily for his Orientalist works, he made a few paintings and watercolors on the South of France which have been the subject of an exhibition in 1911 in Paris. This is the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris that works with warm colors, colorful, southern were exposed. We walk past the edge of the Mediterranean: in Saint-Tropez, the Lavandou.
His paintings as for them are described as tasty in beautiful shimmering material and represent: "The port of fishermen, dock the boats Road Granier in Saint-Tropez"

Size: 54 x 73 cm without frame and 83 x 103 cm with its imposing nineteenth giltwood frame.