M. Bernanose (1884-1952), Le Mas En Provence, Oil On Panel, Stamp On The Back, Framed

Marcel Bernanose was born in Valenciennes but grew up in Nancy where his father was a public works contractor. Arriving in Indichina at the very beginning of the 20th century, we found him in 1910 in charge of mission to the Governor General. Attached to the French school of the Far East, he studied vernacular art and published a certain number of communications. including the reference work, Decorative Arts in Tonkin in 1922. He developed a real career there as a painter and wood engraver. A traveling painter (Hanoi School of Fine Arts), he returned to France in the 1920s where he exhibited in the various Salons (Nancy, Paris, etc.) his landscapes of Lorraine and the South as well as his memories of the Extreme. -East. In 1922, he received the grand prize at the Colonial exhibition in Marseille. Out of competition at the Paris Decorative Arts Exhibition in 1925, he collaborated with the architect of the Indochina Pavilion. Oil on wood panel, signed on the back with the monogram stamp, vesr 1930. Framed painting. Shipping possible anywhere in the world.