Symbolist Painting

We present this framed painting (pastel and enhanced with gouache in some places) treated in a symbolist way signed by Marcel FEGUIDE, born on April 9, 1890 in Saint Etienne (42). He comes from Italian immigration. He goes to Paris against the advice of his parents to follow the courses of the Beaux Arts (he could have taken them in Saint Etienne). He was a boarder at the Villa Medici in Rome. He devoted his life to painting and he sought contact with the public. He settled in Eygalières from 1939. He lost his father very young, he was the only son of an Italian mother, she ran a fabric business in Saint Etienne. He died in 1968 and a street bears his name in Saint Etienne. Many of his paintings were negotiated between 500/600 Euros at the hammer knowing that most of the time it is professionals who buy them. (E24)