View Of Marseille By René Roussel

Original gouache by the artist René Roussel. located and signed lower right. René Roussel René Roussel was born in 1885 in Mée-sur-Seine, near Melun (Seine-et-Marne). A student at the National School of Fine Arts from 1903 to 1907, he took lessons there from Jean-Léon Gérôme who taught him respect for drawing and tradition, then those of Gabriel Ferrier, academic painter and portraitist. Roussel exhibited for the first time in 1910, at the Salon des humouristes. “He excelled in many areas,” underlines Bernard Gagnepain. He approached all techniques (pencil, oil, gouache, Indian ink, sepia) and all subjects (still life, flowers, portraits, landscapes, seascapes, genre scenes, sketches, advertising and humorous drawings, etc.) But it It is undoubtedly in the field of posters that René Roussel obtained his greatest successes, with no less than twenty-seven prizes, mentions and medals. His work is undoubtedly marked by the soft light that emanates from it.