"El Kantara 1927 By Maurice Bouviolle 1893-1971"
Oil on cardboard measuring 33cm x 41cm plus quality gilded frame 42cm x 50cm representing an orientalist village scene titled and dated lower right El Kantara 1927 signed lower right MBOUVIOLLE Maurice BOUVIOLLE born in Beauvais in 1893, he was a student of Rochegrosse, he exhibited regularly at Paris and received the Maguelonne Lefebvre-Glaize prize and a silver medal in 1922. He was a boarder at the villa Abdel-Tif in 1921-22 He was one of the first artists to paint the Mzab region in Algeria, whose daily life he painted meticulously and in a reportage style His works are increasingly highly rated free shipping worldwide