Jacques Bouyssou “the Lieutenancy Of The Port Of Honfleur” Oil On Canvas 20th Century

Jacques Bouyssou, oil on canvas A very nice painting by Jacques Bouyssou, representing The Lieutenancy of the port of Honfleur, in Normandy, executed in a bright and colorful palette, Expertised by the Maréchaux firm. Height: 65 cm, (without frame), Width: 81 cm. (without frame), Weight: 5, 540 Kgs History: Jacques Bouyssou, French painter, was born in Honfleur 1926 in Calvados. He died in January 1997. Bouyssou studied at the Troyes School of Architecture and Fine Arts and drew with the sculptor Janin. He moved to Paris and became a student of Othon Friesz and Lucien Simon at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1973, Bouyssou was appointed "official painter of the French Navy". His works are kept at the Musée de la Marine in Paris. He is in the lineage of the Great Impressionist Painters of the last century and he delivers this message to us: "Today, I know that there are things that cannot be learned: the gesture that translates an emotion through the line, the volumes and the colors. The stronger the emotional shock, the less control stops the gesture... I paint what I see and what I am."