Louis-jean Beaupuy Still Life With African Statette

Still Life With African Statuette
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1957 lower right.
Louis-Jean Beaupuy 1896-1974 Born in Elbeuf, pupil of Fernand Cormon at the Beaux-arts in Paris, he received in 1930 the silver medal of the Society of French Artists. He exhibited in 1932 at the Salon des Artistes Français and at the Salon Colonial des Artistes Français in the 1930s. In 1927, 1928, 1929 he exhibited landscapes and portraits at the Salon des Indépendants. He won a travel grant in 1931 for Madagascar, then another in 1934 for French Equatorial Africa. Several of his paintings are exhibited at the Quai-Branly museum, Paintings from the distance exhibition in 2018, The Governor General and Madame Renard at M'Pila in AEF, in which we observe the administrator and his wife distributing food in a small village in Equatorial Africa. He died in Saint-Privat des Près in 1974. Bibliography: Édouard-Joseph Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Artists 1930, volume 1. Lynne Thornton, Africanists, traveling painters: 1860-1960.