Portrait By Antoine Serra 1908-1995

Beautiful oil on canvas measuring 61cm x 46cm plus frame 86cm x 71cm signed lower right A.SERRA dated 1957 Antoine SERRA born in 1908 in Sardinia in a very poor family Arrived at the age of 6 in Marseille I had to work very early to feed himself He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at a very young age and won numerous prizes Politically committed, he joined Spain to fight against Franco, a proletarian painter, he joined the group around Ambrogiani, Toncini, Ferrari, Sari after the war , Diana etc... He suffered one day, without being able to get rid of it, a magnetic attraction for the Alpilles which he discovered by chance during a stay, amazed by "landscapes enveloped in a light which magnifies the forms ". He then decided to settle in this region, which he did in 1946, by buying an old farmhouse, renovated over the years, the "Mas du Diable", located at the foot of Les Baux de Provence. He lived the last fifteen years of his life in Mouriès, a small Provençal village in the heart of the Alpilles, in a farmhouse he had restored. He died on May 6, 1995, at the age of 87. Free shipping for the European Union