André Charigny (1902-2000) The Urirotstock Seen From Beroldingen Alps Switzerland Mountain - Oil

The Urirotstock (summit located in the Swiss Alps) seen from Beroldingen, oil on cardboard by André Charigny, French painter born in 1902 in Paris and died in Besançon in 2000.
Signed lower left, located on the back on a label.
Good condition ; a small lack of paint on the right, hidden by the frame.
Used condition for the frame.
Painting dimensions : 24 x 19 cm.
Frame dimensions : 34.5 x 29.5 cm.
From school, André Charigny, son of color merchants, was passionate about drawing. He won a first prize for sight drawing during the general drawing competitions of the schools of the city of Paris. From 1916, for health reasons, the teenager spent several years in Normandy, in Eure, where he discovered the wonder of nature.
In 1920, he was admitted to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.
In 1924, the painter Robert Fernier (1895-1977), founder of the Courbet Museum in Ornans, invited him and introduced him to his Jura.
In 1927, he participated with the Comtois painter André Roz (1887-1946) in the founding of the Salon des Annonciades in Pontarlier, a salon to which he remained faithful throughout his life.
He also exhibited at the Salon des Artistes français where he received an honorable mention in 1927 and a bronze medal the following year. He won the Leclerc-Maria-Bouland prize in 1928, the silver medal in 1930 and the gold medal in 1931. He also won the Rosa Bonheur Prize. At the 1934 show, he was awarded a travel grant for a Market Scene. At the 1940 show, he won the Paul Chabas prize. In 1947, he became a member of the jury of this national show.
In 1945, he married Antoinette Maître and, four years later, the couple settled permanently in Besançon. Every summer, his faithful friend Pierre Bichet (1922-2008), snow painter and operator of volcanologist Haroun Tazieff, invites him to share his Jura workshop in Pontarlier.