Landscape Of Provence By Antoine Serra 1908-1995

Beautiful oil on canvas by the great painter Antoine Serra measuring 38cm x 55cm plus carved wooden frame 50cm x 65 cm Signed lower right Antoine SERRA born in 1908 in Sardinia in a very poor family Arrived at the age of 6 in Marseille I must working very early to feed himself He entered the School of Fine Arts at a very young age and won numerous prizes Politically involved, he joined Spain to fight against Franco, a proletarian painter, after the war he joined the group around Ambrogiani, Toncini, Ferrari, Sari, Diana etc... One day, without being able to shake it off, he experienced a magnetic attraction for the Alpilles which he discovered during a chance stay, amazed by "landscapes enveloped in a light which magnifies the forms.” He then decided to settle in this region, which he did in 1946, by purchasing an old farmhouse, renovated over the years, the “Mas du Diable”, located at the foot of Les Baux de Provence. He lived there for the last fifteen years of his life in Mouriès, a small Provençal village in the heart of the Alpilles, in a farmhouse that he had renovated. He died on May 6, 1995, at the age of 87. Free shipping for the European Union