Roger Casse 1880 1963 Walker On A Path

Walker on a path by Roger Casse Signed lower right Painter born in Paris in 1880, he was a student of Larcher at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Nancy. In 1899 he entered the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris in the Cormon workshop. In 1907, he exhibited an Alsatian Interior at the Salon de la Nationale, participating regularly in the exhibitions of this Society, notably presenting a moving Portrait of Me Demange, in 1924. A member in 1932, he resigned, attracted by the freedom of the Salon des Tuileries, where, from 1928, he had shown a Portrait of a woman and an interior of the Cabinet of Me Demange and where he exhibited until 1944. He appeared in the Indépendants of 1932 and 1941, with, lastly, a portrait of the writer René de Planhol; silver medal at the 1937 Universal Exhibition for a Portrait of a Woman. He also created large decorations including those of the Nancy Maternity Hospital; two triptychs and two facing panels, bucolic scenes as well as: The Consultation and Visit of Professor Fruhinsholz to a recent childbirth; a sketch can be found at the town hall of Oissel (76). For the High Court of Justice in Lima, Peru, he copied: Divine Justice and Vengeance Pursuing the Crime of Prud'hon. It appears in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris with two landscapes, in the Nice Museum with a Port of Antibes and in the Digne Museum with a landscape.