Firmin Claude (1864-1944) “the Old Port Of Marseille, 1894” Provence Avignon Grivolas

FIRMIN Claude (1864-1944)

“The Old Port of Marseille, 1894”

Oil on canvas,
Signed lower left, dated 1894 and located “Marseille”.

Beautiful, finely crafted early work by the Avignon painter Claude Firmin-Goy which represents a view of the Old Port of Marseille on a summer morning. The artist used a light color palette.

Claude Firmin is qualified by critics as one of the best Avignon landscapers "with paintings of superior execution which ignore the violence of contrasts and are enveloped in a seductive harmony of color"; But also, as a painter with exceptional talent, “mainly by his quality of vision: qualities which require a natural feeling of light, perfected by extensive experience”.

A student of Pierre Grivolas, Léon Bonnat and Paul Saïn, he appeared at the Salon des Artistes français from 1889 to 1922 and at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants from 1906 to 1910 where he obtained numerous awards during his participation.
At the same time, he attended exhibitions in Avignon from 1882 to 1944, including that of the Group of Thirteen to which he belonged.
In 1922, he became a professor and then director from 1937 to 1941 of the School of Fine Arts in the City of Avignon.
He was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1937.

Dimensions: 33 x 41 cm in frame view and 41 x 47.5 cm with its 20th century wooden frame.

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Currently:
Exhibition "The Provence of painters, The South of France by painters"
Chapelle Notre-Dame de Pitié, Av Durand Maillane, 13210 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.