Cagnes-sur-mer - Raoul About Early 20th Century

Dimensions: with frame: 85 x 70 cm, unframed: 63 x 48 cm (note small discrete stripe at the top of the frame) This painter, whose criticism and art historians seem to have forgotten everything, yet many illuminated canvases of the sun of Provence. The Martigues, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Saint-Tropez, Nice, their ports, their narrow streets and many Mediterranean landscapes Saint-Tropez or Martigues are not the only villages on the Côte d'Azur to fascinate painters. The pretty little village of Cagnes-sur Mer, located about ten kilometers from Nice, perched on a hill that rises to 90 meters above sea level, offers the view of the walls of its old castle, the one that the lord Rainier 1er Grimaldi began erect from 1309 facing the church of St. Peter and St. Paul to the bell tower in ironwork and clock, installed in 1880, its labyrinthine steep streets and paved with pebbles, vaulted passages, flowery stairs, of houses crooked and interlaced with each other ... To go further: www.lestresorsdegamaliel.com/tableaux/186-cagnes-sur-mer-raoul-about.html Copyright Lestresorsdegamaliel.com