Edges Of The Loire Of Saint Florent Le Vieil By Marie Sourice (1906-1979)

Oil on canvas representing a Loire landscape of Saint Florent le Vieil and its castle. This charming painting was made by Marie Sourice (1906-1979), painter from Angevin. This painting accurately reflects those colors that the Loire can offer mid-season. Nice depth, bright picture. Marie Sourice was a painter passionate about the flowery villages of her native Anjou, with a strong link with the small town of Saint Florent le Vieil which she painted tirelessly. Her initiation to painting, she owes it to a painter met in Brittany, Maurice Levis (1860-1940), member of the Society of French Artists, who painted landscapes of France and the Orient and who had himself many of his masters, a landscape painter of recognized talent: Harpignies. Two trips to Algeria, in 1936 and 1938, which in turn confronted her with the colors of the Orient, certainly also played a role in her training as an artist and also contributed significantly to clarifying her palette, with colors increasingly live. Marie Sourice had also followed, in Paris, the lessons of Maurice Lévis, himself a former student of Corot”. In his family, he was called “Mimie”. And all the Florentais who knew her and for whom she had become such a familiar figure also called her "Mimie Sourice". We were used to meeting her in the streets of old Saint-Florent or on the banks of the Loire, sitting on her folding chair, wearing her blouse, her palette in one hand, her brushes in the other, painting the landscape that she had before her eyes. Often Mont-Glonne with its famous abbey church in its green setting and the Loire below. Or, in a much more structured way, an old porch, adorned with a wisteria, an old house, with its corner of the garden, always in bloom, to which she did not fail to add a touch of life, a human note. Always ready to strike up a conversation, in the friendliest tone and with everyone: old people or young kids, Florentais or tourists, always smiling, but frank too. Everywhere at home in Anjou, she was found planting her easel in the heart of a village or at the edge of the water, to paint more and more flowery canvases. No one has forgotten its cherry and peach trees in blossom, springing above the walls of the alleys of old Saint-Florent, its Judas trees on the banks of the Loire and its taste for lilacs, jasmines, wallflowers and especially wisteria which made her truly the "painter of wisteria". Dimensions of the frame x cm Dimensions of the panel x cm Delivery by colissimo, with suitable protection, allow 40 euros for France, on estimate for other destinations. Contact me on 06 78 87 61 61 or 02 43 44 64 89