"Jac Lem (1914-1995) - Saint Helena In The Hague"
Jacques Lemonnier dit JAC LEM (1914-1995) Saint Helena (Hague) near Saint-Germain des Vaux Oil on canvas Signed on the lower right 38 x 46 cm Beautiful blackened wooden frame Born in Vast on the farm of the 25 July 1914. He said he was a pupil of Maurice Pigeon, another vastais artist. In his childhood he observed Pigeon at work, thus he acquired a base of trade by imitation and mimicry. Jac Lem had a gift, a self-taught painter, landscape designer at the beginning when he was a young draftsman at the arsenal of Cherbourg. A daring creator, he executed fast, powerful, intuitive collages.