Louis Fortuney Signed Woman Knitting Market Scene Rt1017

Pastel on paper, representing a woman knitting in a market full of bright and bright colors.
Signed lower left
This is the signature of Louis Fortuney
Biography
Louis Fortuney was born in 1878 and died in 1950.
He is essentially a pastelist, well known for his genre subjects and his scenes of Parisian life, his characters taken lively and vividly colored.
A student of Fine Arts in Toulouse, Fortuney, an everyday illustrator, initiated by Toulouse Lautrec, Gervex, Sisley and Renoir, is an expressionist figurative painter close to Fauvism and Pastellist of the elegant or Estérel.
An anarchist, he refuses official fairs and art dealer contracts.
His paintings are scattered without ever having been presented in public.
It is listed in Bénézit and in the dictionary of little masters of painting (Schurr).
Period: first part of the 20th century
Condition: Correct condition, the passe-partout has yellowed over time, however the colors of the pastel have remained fresh and bright, The passe-partout is glued to the paper itself glued at the bottom on the framing cardboard.
Dimensions with mat: 41.5 x 34 cm
Paper dimensions: 32.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions in view of the mat: 23x 29 cm
Weight: 280 grams

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