Fernand Herbo (1905-1995) Crécy-en-brie (circa 1960)

Fernand Herbo (1905-1995) Crécy-en-Brie (circa 1960) oil on cardboard signed lower left 38x46cm Rare and probably unique painting representing Crécy by Fernand HERBO, painter of the Navy. Fernand Herbo; born in Orchies on March 28, 1905 and died in Équemauville near Honfleur on August 21, 19954. He was appointed painter to the French Navy in 1944. At the beginning of the 1950s, Fernand Herbo met the French gallery owner and poet Katia Granoff who exhibits it in his new gallery in Honfleur. Katia Granoff, a great discoverer of talents (she exhibited and revealed, among others, Marc Chagall and Othon Friesz, and encouraged the rediscovery of the series Les Nymphéas by Claude Monet) thus introduced the École de l'Estuaire de la Seine, including Fernand Herbo is one of the representatives. Honfleur gave its name to a quay in the town, Le Mesnil-Esnard to a street. Public collections. Honfleur; Eugène-Boudin Museum a room bears the name of the artist), twenty-three paintings by Fernand Herbo. Paris ; National Museum of Modern Art, Le quai de Jemmapes, oil on canvas, 1942. Dreux; Museum of Art and History, Place Métezeau on a market day, oil on canvas, 1936 Évreux Museum, Street landscape under the snow, watercolor, 1938.