"Large Oil Fresco Painting / Art Deco Panel Antoine Barbier Lyon School Le Parc Lyon"
very large oil painting on plywood the park probably in the rose garden (parc de la tete d'or) signed lower right antoine barber lyonnaise school Biography[ In 1925 he obtained a silver medal at the Salon des artistes français of which he was a member and is then put out of competition. Grand Prize of the Lyon Society of Fine Arts and medal of honor, he became president of the Lyon section of the Friendly Society of French Painters and Sculptors. Member of the Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts of Lyon, he exhibited, among others, at the Salon d'hiver, at the Salon des paysagistes français, in Lyon, Algiers, Geneva, Saint-Etienne etc. His works are kept at the Carnavalet Museum, in Lyon, Bern, Brussels, Oxford, Algiers, Cairo, etc. He also decorated the Roanne Chamber of Commerce. There is a rue Antoine Barbier in Lyon.