Aber Benoît (finistère, Brittany) - Watercolor Signed Louis-albert Demangeon (1909-1979)

Watercolor signed lower right Louis-Albert Demangeon, representing Aber-Benoît, in the North-West of Finistère, in Brittany. Biography Louis-Albert Demangeon (1909-1979) Born in 1909 and graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris, Louis-Albert Demangeon spent much of the 20th century as a professional painter and drawing teacher. The diversity of his work, both in style and technique, reflects the turmoil of an era moving from the shadows of the Second World War to the lights of the Trente Glorieuses. "He grew up in the avant-garde period, that of Picasso, Braque or Matisse. But his passion was for the old masters like Poussin, Velázquez or Ingres. Throughout his life he remained faithful to the figurative and this sometimes created a gap with his generation. » From his prolific work, there are now more than 1,000 paintings and 560 engravings. A street in Champagne-sur-Oise bears his name…