Maurice Paris (1903-1969) "seaweed Harvesters At Mont Saint Michel" Avranches, Brette, Lower Normandy

Magnificent and large oil/canvas by Maurice Paris representing a scene of seaweed or kelp gathering in the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, signed lower left. Format without frame 50x65cm and 54x69cm including frame This is therefore a superb post-impressionist composition by Maurice Paris which here represents a scene with seaweed gatherers and their cart pulled by a horse on the shore near Mont St Michel. The touch is powerful with large flat areas, its drawing precise and the palette of the most subtle with tones of gray/blue, ochre/beige, brown and green. An emblematic work of Paris, immediately recognizable, it transcribes like no other painter the light so specific to this region, a major painting by the painter. I have had in the past several works by Maurice Paris who is today one of the best painters of the Bay of Avranches and Mont-Saint Michel, alongside other painters from Lower Normandy such as Prévot-Valéri, Brette, Desgranges, Planquette etc... Maurice Baptiste Paris, born in Paris on January 1, 1903 and died in the same town on October 9, 1969, is a painter from La Manche. He arrived in Avranches in 1934 and became the collaborator of Louis Fautrel, president of the artistic salon of the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel and Avranchin. His studio is located in Avranches where he works with his wife, Germaine Legeleux, also a painter. He painted the bay of Mont Saint-Michel, its seaweed gatherers, its shore fishermen, many landscapes of Avranchin, the ruins of Avranches after the Second World War... The back of his studio was sold at the auction room in Bayeux (Calvados) in 1989, 1991 and 1993. His works are regularly sold in Bayeux during sales of Norman painters. He appears in the book Painting and sculpture in the Manche from the 19th century to the present day, published by the ODAC in 1989. The Avranches Museum of Art and History has some of his works. This canvas is in perfect condition; delivered in an American crate made of natural wood. Work guaranteed authentic