The Port Of Croisic By Maurice Moy

Oil on hardboard. Signed lower right.

The caseyeurs at work with the houses of the Croisic quays in the background. Here the painter has chosen an almost square format where a sky that is truer than life occupies a little more than half the canvas. These sailors are as if crushed by it. As if the painter wanted to show us the importance of the elements with which these men of the sea must deal. We can feel that it has rained, because on the ground we notice some puddles. It is the arrival of the blue sky after the rain.

Maurice Moy (1883 - 1945): Maurice Moy is a painter from Rennes, a former student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, who has never stopped painting his hometown but also all of Brittany, with numerous seascapes. He also produced some paintings on the Algerian South and Tunisia. A contemporary of Mathurin Méheut, he achieved neither the production nor the fame of the latter, although having a comparable force of trait. He also sometimes touched Cubism. He exhibited in 1923 at the Salon des Indépendants. An article in Ouest Eclair from 1925 spoke of him in these terms "The painter these skies which have nothing conventional", a qualifier quite correct on the work that we present.