Emile Wery "the House In The Trees" Oil On Cardboard 44x31

Emile WERY (1868-1935)
Oil on cardboard 44x31 cm "The house in the trees" Around 1920
Signed lower left
Emile Wery was very close to Matisse in the 1890s in their Montparnasse studios. Their destinies diverged, when Wery remained faithful to a naturalism close to Impressionism, "distrusting the slavery of fashions in painting", which did not prevent him from encouraging his students like Dufy and Friesz among others, to develop their originality.
He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, at the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, at the universal exhibitions and then enjoyed a good reputation.
Painted with a spontaneous touch in a light full of vibrations, the painting represents "the red house" in the Hauts de Cagne where he settled at the end of the war, very near of Renoir's home.
Biblio: Benezit, Dictionary of Little Masters, Schurr,...
Golded wooden frame