"Léon-marie Benoit (bains-les-bains 1853 - 1916 Tassin-la-demi-lune)"
Léon-Marie BENOIT (Bains-les-Bains 1853 - 1916 Tassin-la-Demi-Lune) Still life with peaches, plums, blackberries and currants Signed lower left Oil on canvas, 60 x 81.5 cm PROVENANCE - Private collection until December 2023 THE ARTIST A student of Remilleux, he has exhibited landscapes in Lyon since 1891 and obtained a second medal in 1907 at the Salon of this city, with Saint Sorbin en Bugey and La Mare. Léon-Marie Benoit began his career as a flower painter, a field in which he acquired great mastery. Subsequently he revealed himself as an outdoor landscape painter. 
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