"Oil On Canvas - Gilbert Galland (1870-1950) Bou Saada Algeria"
Oil on canvas signed lower left in its frame. In Algiers, in 1889, Gilbert Galland was a student of Hippolyte Dubois, a painter from Nantes who was director of the Fine Arts School of Algiers from 1885 to 1909. He liked to paint boats, ports and scenes of life. With his teacher, he was one of the founders of the Society of Algerian Orientalist Artists in 1897. He exhibited at the Society of Fine Arts of Algiers and also in Paris, where he presented watercolors: views of Brittany, Marseille, the Far East and Algeria. Dimensions: 65 x 30.5 / 78 x 43 cm