René Pirola (1879-1912) The Oliviers In Provence (c1900)

René PIROLA (1879-1912)

Very beautiful oil on canvas in tawny colors representing a field of olive trees in the south of France.

This luminous work in warm colors on its original canvas painted by René Pirola at the very beginning of the 20th century is signed lower left with the artist's studio stamp of the sale.

Presented in a Montparnasse frame, the frame dimensions included are: 85 x 75 centimeters.

Without frame the dimensions are 65 x 54 centimeters.

Biography:

Born in 1879 René Pirola began painting at a very young age. Known as a landscape painter, he also paints scenes of Parisian life, the south of France or Marseille where he stayed for a time as well as views of Corsica. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants and like many artists of this period, he was attracted by orientalism which led him to paint in Tunisia and Algeria.

Apollinaire noted René Pirola as "a young artist from whom we had high hopes" during the Salon des Indépendants which took place in March 1913, a few months after the premature death of René Pirola, then aged only 33.