Paul émile Lecompte (1877 -1950) The Port Of The Island Of Yeu Signed

Here is a beautiful oil on panel made by Paul Émile Lecomte (1877 -1950) representing a lively port. The work is signed lower right and is presented in a beautiful carved period frame.
The dimensions with the frame: 54 x 46 centimeters

On the back is handwritten "port of the island of  d' Yeu"

 Biography

Son of the painter Paul Lecomte, Paul Emile Lecomte bathed very young in the family artistic circle. It is besides with his father that he made his first classes before joining the workshop of Fernand Cormon at the School of Fine Arts in Paris.
His training completed, he became a painter for the Ministry of the Navy, and regularly participated in the Salon of French Artists, of which he was a member from 1902.
That same year he won a gold medal.
As a recognized artist, he was seduced by maritime landscapes and stayed on the Ile d'Yeu several times from 1921 to 1932, influenced by the painter Callot.

During the period preceding the First World War, the choice of maritime landscapes, and in particular of beach scenes, places this painter in the line of Boudin and Monet.

Influenced by the dying Impressionist movement, Paul-Emile Lecomte treats his subjects freely, and his economy of touches only reinforces the attitude in which his models are captured.
Working both in oil paint and watercolor, he often uses soft and muted colors to restore an atmosphere filled with serenity in his paintings.
He has painted landscapes, market scenes, villages, banks of the river (the Eure), ports and beaches. But if he displays a predilection for seascapes and a thick touch,
Paul-Emile Lecomte also produced much more classic portraits, such as that of Charles Augustin de Coulomb, with a smooth and very realistic style (Versailles museum).