Port Café By Bernard De Sommyèvre Circa 1940

Beautiful cubist painting signed lower left Bernard de Sommyèvre, countersigned on the back and titled "Café du port". Breton scene where three characters, apparently a postman and two fishermen in peacoats, are seated at a table on the terrace where the waitress wearing the Breton headdress brings drinks, facing the lively port. Circa 1940. Under marie-louise, in a Montparnasse frame in carved wood. Dimensions of the canvas 46.5x55 cm Total dimensions, with frame, 65x74.5 cm Bernard de Sommyèvre is a French painter born in Versailles in 1890, died in Malakoff in 1953. He exhibited in Paris, at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon d'Automne of which he was a member. Artist listed in the Benezit.