Fernand Herbo (1905-1995) Crecy-en-brie,

Fernand Herbo (1905-1995) Crécy-en-Brie, avenue de Villiers the traveling theater "Maurin", watercolor on paper signed and dated (1949) lower left 36x58cm Fernand Herbo; born in Orchies on March 28, 1905 and died in Équemauville near Honfleur on August 21, 19954. He was appointed painter of the French Navy in 1944. In the early 1950s, Fernand Herbo met the French gallery owner and poet Katia Granoff who exhibited his work in her new gallery in Honfleur. Katia Granoff, a great talent scout (she exhibited and revealed Marc Chagall and Othon Friesz, among others, and encouraged the rediscovery of Claude Monet's Water Lilies series) thus introduced the Seine Estuary School, of which Fernand Herbo was one of the representatives. Honfleur gave its name to a quay in the city, Le Mesnil-Esnard to a street. Public collections. Honfleur; Eugène-Boudin Museum (a room bears the artist's name), twenty-three paintings by Fernand Herbo. Paris; Musée national d'art moderne, Le quai de Jemmapes, oil on canvas, 1942. Dreux; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, La place Métezeau un jour de marché, oil on canvas, 1936 Musée d'Évreux, Paysage de rue sous la neige, watercolor, 1938. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Le port de Saint-Nazaire, oil on canvas