Marcel Wibault (1904-1998) The Needles Of Chamonix Seen From The Chalets Of Charousse

Marcel WIBAULT (1904-1998)

The needles of Chamonix seen from the chalets of Charousse.

Magnificent oil on hardboard panel representing a view of the Chamonix needles by Marcel Wibault.

This work is signed lower right and is presented in its original frame.

Biography: Marcel Wibault (born July 13, 1904 in Besançon died February 28, 1998 in Chamonix) is a painter known today especially for his numerous mountain paintings representing Mont-Blanc, Chamonix, the great peaks of the Alps, the chalets , flowers.

He took his first steps in art by making sketches of soldiers of the 60th infantry regiment of Besançon. He subsequently became a student of Fine Arts.

Much later he discovered, as a Member of. French Alpine club, the Alps and its grandiose landscapes which offer themselves to the artist still in search of his own style.
At the beginning of the 1930s, he settled in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc and discovered, in these troubled times. , the departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie Encouraged by his wife, a Parisian who came to join him, Marcel Wibault painted the mountain and its surroundings, he traveled the surroundings equipped with his painting equipment. the natural history museum and the city of Geneva in Switzerland, as a true knowledgeable geologist, he painted many rocks. In the 1960s, he also bore witness, through his painting, to the construction of the Mont-Blanc Tunnel.

Marcel Wibault received numerous orders from art lovers and was able to live partly from his art. He was also a teacher for his son Lionel Wibault who is also a painter. In his chalet in Chamonix, the Alpenrose, he made some of his furniture and sculpted numerous figures.