An Oil On Panel, Oriental City Landscape By Pierre Commarmond

Pierre Commarmond1897-1983

This painter from Lyon was a landscape specialist. After the Second World War, he became artistic director of the Chaix printing house. He exhibited at the Indépendants in 1931 and 1932 and was a successful participant at the Salon des peintres de montagne.

Commarmond was a student of Karl Cartier and took classes at the Galland studio. He then worked at Éditions Mayeux, organized tourist exhibitions in train stations and produced numerous posters for the railways.

A member of the French artists, the Salon de l'École française and the École de la Marine, he was an artist who forged links with Marie Laurencin, Yves Brayer, Paul Jouve, Jean Rigaud, Pierre Eugène Montézin and André Dunoyer de Segonzac.