Aimé Daniel Steinlen 1923-1996 - Post Impressionism Painting Marine Péniches Oil Signed

Original oil on embedded canvas 65 cm x 54 cm, sold with its gilded wooden frame 84 cm x 73 cm, signed lower left Steinlen, dating from the 60s/70s and representing a navy with moored barges. Note a slight small depression of the canvas but not very visible. Good original condition. Sold with an invoice-certificate. Aimé Daniel Steinlen 1923-1996 Aimé Daniel Steinlen was born in 1923 in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, in the North, and died in 1996. His family numbering no less than three painters, his path was naturally traced . Thus, after a year of medicine, he entered the National School of Fine Arts. Drawing teacher, printer, illustrator of art books, worthy successor of his great-uncle Théophile Alexandre STEINLEN - draftsman, engraver and lithographer - he inherited the love of his neighbor and his mastery of portraiture. Whether in a few strokes drawn with a brush or with the bite of his chisel, he gives everyone his share of truth, thus proving the superiority of painting over the immediacy of photography. But this Man from the North is also a formidable colorist, known above all for his paintings, finding in the calm of his Vendée house "the wide open spaces of Flanders, the light and more", according to his own words. The maritime scenes, the wide horizons under an autumn sun, on which stand out trees with branches bent by the wind, the lands with deep ploughings locking up the sweat of men, waiting for the alchemy of winter , are his favorite themes. He obtained many distinctions, among others the National Order of Arts and Letters and participated in numerous exhibitions and fairs, both in France and abroad. His works appear in numerous French and foreign collections.