Sunflowers By Antoine Serra 1908-1995

"The Bouquet of Flowers" By Antoine Serra 1908-1995" Beautiful oil on canvas by the great painter Antoine Serra measuring 50cm x 74cm plus slightly damaged wooden frame 70cm x 91cm Signed lower right Antoine SERRA born in 1908 in Sardinia in a very poor family Arrived at the age of 6 in Marseille he had to work very early to feed himself He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at a young age and won numerous prizes Politically engaged, he joined Spain to fight against Franco proletarian painter, then after the war the group around Ambrogiani, Toncini, Ferrari, Sari, Diana etc... He suffered one day, without being able to get rid of it, a magnetic attraction for the Alpilles which he discovered by chance during a stay, amazed by "landscapes enveloped in a light which magnifies the forms". He then decided to settle in this region, which he made in 1946, by purchasing an old farmhouse, renovated over the years, the "Mas du Diable", located at the foot of Les Baux de Provence. He lived the last fifteen years of his life in Mouriès, a small Provençal village in the heart of the Alpilles, in a farmhouse that he had renovated. He died on May 6, 1995, at the age of 87. Free shipping for the European Union