Beach Game By Edgard Melik 1904-1976

Oil on cardboard representing (I think) a young girl playing ball on the beach It is in its juice, a few small chips on the bottom of the painting signed at the bottom Edgard MELIK Le Maître de Cabries Born in 1904 in Paris, it is in Provence that he will make a career Coming in the footsteps of van Gogh and Cézanne, this creator drew all his symbolic and dreamlike inspiration from his imaginary world. An artist with character, he settled in Cabriès, more precisely at the Château which dominates the village, now transformed into the Mélik Museum It will have a tragic end in 1976 Some art critics consider him to be one of the greatest painters of his generation A figurative work bordering on abstraction Free shipping for the European Union 290 euros for the rest of the world