Gustave Vidal (1895-1966) Animated Landscape In Provence Or Corsica 1935. Provençale, Avignon, Chabaud

French painter born in 1895 in Vaucluse, Gustave Vidal studied at the Beaux-Arts d'Avignon, where the previous director, Pierre Grivolas, had encouraged his students to go and paint outdoors. This influence continued after Grivolas' death, and Gustave Vidal was one of the pioneers of the next generation, combining in his paintings, representing mostly landscapes of Provence, the teaching given by Pierre Grivolas, but also much more modern influences. Gustave VIDAL is a landscape and marine painter. Laureate of the Beaux Arts d'Avignon where he received numerous awards. He paints landscapes of Provence, Camargue and Corsica. Exhibiting in his native region, but also abroad, his paintings thus mix the influences of the New School of Avignon with those of more abstract painters, visible in particular in the knife treatment and pictorial stylization of his paintings. He thus participated in the Parisian Salons, notably that of French artists, of which he was named a member, and enjoyed growing success until his death in 1966.