Louis-lina Bill 1855 / 1936, Near Toulon, French School

Signed: Lina Bill, pseudonym of Louis Bonnot, artist referenced and present in many Museums, French School.
Oil painting on canvas, in very good condition.
Subject: the surroundings of Toulon (inscription on the back), Côte d'Azur, South of France
Period: around 1910/20 Formats: with frame 86 x 69 cm, without frame 73 x 54 cm (20P)
Frame: gilded wooden frame, from the period of the painting, in good condition.

Biography:
Louis-Lina BILL 1855 /1936
Lina Bill, pseudonym of Louis Bonnot, is a French painter born on January 6, 1855 in Gruissan and died on August 26, 1936 in Avignon. Son of a wealthy shipowner, and little or not attracted to the sea, Louis Bonnot decided to devote his life to painting. Choosing to represent water, the sea, Provence and the Mediterranean, he took the pseudonym Lina Bill and became a watercolourist, although he also practiced oil painting. Married and having a child, he left his family, his native village and settled in Toulon as a painter and photographer during the 1880s. In 1886, he left Toulon and settled in Avignon. Lina Bill presented herself as a student of Vincent Courdouan and Paul Saïn, with whom he had worked in 1887.
1888 was the year of his first participation in the Salon des artistes français where he presented Le Rhône in Avignon. He then lived in Avignon, and more precisely in the Monclar district. In 1891, he received an honorable mention at the Salon des artistes français with the Village de Gruissan2. In 1894, he left Avignon to go to Marseille where he settled at number 364 rue Paradis.
1895 saw his final return to Avignon. He was buried in the Saint-Véran cemetery (square 26)3 in the same commune. Works in the collections and

Museums:
Museum of Fine Arts of Agen: View of Agde Calvet Museum, Avignon: View of the City of Carcassonne, The Village of Gruissan Marine of the surroundings of Banyuls Museum of Fine Arts of Carcassonne: Les Martigues Comtadin-Duplessis Museum, Carpentras: "On the beach" Goya Museum, Castres: Return from fishing, View of Gruissan Orsay

Museum:
Gruissan Municipal Museum of Mont-de-Marsan: Morning in Gruissan Museum of Art and History of Narbonne: Entrance to the port of Marseille Paul-Valéry Museum in Sète: Fishing boats - Sète, watercolor Sanary Town Hall: The Port of Sanary Port-Vendres Town Hall: The Quay of Port-Vendres French Embassy in Turkey, Istanbul: The Village of Gruissan

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Painting visible at our gallery at L'Isle sur la Sorgue (France), weekends. Free shipping for France. And on estimate for other countries.