"Old Oil Painting On Canvas School Of Rouen Still Life By Marcel Cramoysan Hst Normandy"
Old oil painting on canvas by Marcel Cramoysan, painter of the Rouen school Period 20th century, nature painting more titled Flowers 1963 In very good condition, beautiful composition Frame size 49 by 62 cm and painting 33 cm by 46 cm A About Marcel Cramoysan, born in Étretat on January 1, 1915 and died in Bois-Guillaume on April 26, 2007, is a French painter and lithographer of the School of Rouen Student of the post-impressionist Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886-1943), Marcel Cramoysan is a figurative painter whose main work is focused on the landscape, Norman in the first place, but also still lifes, floral compositions, circus scenes, rare portraits... Cramoysan decorates the Étretat school with canvases illustrating the Fables of La Fontaine or the Tales of Perrault. When it was inaugurated in 1957, this school was declared “the most beautiful school in France” by Raymond Lindon. Installed at 8, rue Quesney in Rouen3, this “little master in the clear and luminous lineage of the painters of the School of Rouen” was first appreciated by Rouen collectors and galleries, then in Paris: he joined the Pétridès gallery, where his works rub shoulders with those of Vlaminck, Foujita, Utrillo. He practiced lithography from the 1970s. He sold his works in Japan, through the Taménaga gallery. He is invited to numerous exhibitions in France (Paris, Rouen, Albi, Montpellier, Béziers, etc.) and abroad (Switzerland, Japan).