Paul Sarrut 1882-1969 Boats In The Port Of Bordeaux Oil On Cardboard

Paul Sarrut 1882-1969
Boats in the port of Bordeaux
Oil on cardboard
Signed lower right
Framed dimensions: 37 x 46 cm

Paul Sarrut was a student of Léon Bonnat and Luc Olivier Merson at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Having become a drawing teacher at the École de la Ville de Paris, he was drafted on 3 August 1914 during the First World War. Seconded to the British army as an interpreter-adjutant, he produced portraits of allied soldiers, particularly those of the Indian troops stationed in Pas-de-Calais. In 1928, the Georges Petit gallery presented his portraits of children. His drawings still bear witness to his travels to Djibouti and Indochina. For the 1931 Colonial Exhibition, he produced dioramas on Cochinchina with the painter François de Marliave. At the Salon des Artistes français, where he had exhibited since 1909, he received the medal of honor in the engraving section in 1932. That same year, he became a knight of the Legion of Honor.