The Place At The Big Tree By Claude Moulet 1939-2017

Large acrylic on wood measuring 82cm x 43cm plus wooden frame 103cm x63cm Representing a public square with a large tree (La Ciotat - Marseille?) signed lower right by Claude MOULET Born in 1939 Claude Moulet was one of the children of Péano, a famous Marseille bar behind the old port where artists, journalists, art critics, collectors gathered around the Master Pierre Ambrogiani He said "my painting is an ocean in which I swim, there are softnesses, hardnesses, brutality". He had kept the taste for color of the great elders like Ambrogiani, Seyssaud but by bringing a certain modernism of the material through his subjects. A major exhibition was held around him in La Ciotat in 1991 at La Chapelle des Pénitents. He liked to play with materials and shapes. He won the Grand Prix of the city of Avignon in 1964. The International Prize for Young Painting in 1967, the First Prize of the city of Carry and finally the Cantini, Longchamp and Vieille Charité museums acquired some of the artist's works. Free shipping for the European Union