Roland Chanco (1914-2017) "the Book" Important Oil On Canvas

Large oil painting on canvas signed by CHANCO (Roland Chanco 1914-2017) featuring a post-cubist composition in Art Deco style titled on the back 'The Book' and countersigned by the artist as well as the inventory stamp in the catalog raisonné of the artist (see photo). Good condition, dimensions 1 m 20 high X 80 cm wide. Roland Chanconnier, known as Chanco, was born in 1914 in Reignac in Touraine (30 km from our Gallery) When we reach the age of +100, we generally rest from a busy life, but he continued to paint , as he always did and without constraint, his first works date from the 1920s, after his first successes in Tours where he received the first prize, he went to Paris around 1930 and worked on sculpture for a time with Marcel Gimond > c' was the golden age of Montmartre, he frequented the workshops of Edmond Heuzé and Gen-Paul there, his meetings at the time were called Utrillo, Suzanne Valadon or Picasso (in front of his works the Catalan painter does not dry up no praise, congratulating "a very personal style", made of "the same passion" and "fury to create"