Gaston Boucart (1878-1962) "fish Lock Ile d'Oléron" Charente Rochelle Balande Lessieux

Rare and beautiful oil/isorel by Gaston Boucart representing fish locks on the island of Oléron, signed lower right + titled on the back. Format of the painting alone without frame 30x55cm or 42x66cm frame included. This is therefore a superb post-impressionist composition by Gaston Boucart who paints here one of his heart regions, Charente Maritime formerly Charente Inférieure, more precisely here the island of Oléron where he comes very regularly; this work must be dated between 1940 and 1950. He creates a subject very rarely treated, the famous fish locks on Oléron, I think those located near Saint-Denis on the north-east coast of the island; he paints them between two tides, we begin to see the mesh opening which allows water to pass through and the typical "horseshoe" shape; heritage of the island, Boucart could not help but put his testimony on a painting. I no longer present Gaston Boucart, famous painter of the Charentaise school alongside Balande, Langlade, Suire, Couillaud, Lessieux, Verger, Enard....He is finally one of the painters who came to paint on the island of Oléron with Balande , Lessieux, Pinetti, Ernest Chevalier, Suire or Enard. He is also known for his views of Venice. Gaston Hippolyte Ambroise Boucart, born in Angoulême on December 7, 1878 where he died on January 18, 1962, is a French painter and engraver. A student of Gustave Moreau, Fernand Cormon and Paul Gervais, he exhibited at the Salon des artistes français and became a member of the French Federation of Artists (1927 and 1929). Officer of Public Education, Croix de Guerre, his works were acquired by the State, by the General Council of the Seine and by the City of Paris. Some are kept in the museums of Rochefort-sur-Mer, Niort, Angoulême and in North America This painting on hardboard is in very good condition, delivered in a straight frame with gray patina from the years Work guaranteed authentic