Inscriptions on the back: “Aix, view of the Cézanne workshop”, “Mme Mazella”.
Oil on panel signed and dated lower right. Dimensions: 49.5 x 73 cm, with frame: 72 x 95 cm.
Painter and sculptor, originally from Vaulion, in the Vaudois Jura, Casimir Reymond studied at the School of Fine Arts in Geneva. We owe him a sculpture of Mary at St Paul's Church in Vienna and many of her sculptures which adorn the city of Lausanne.
He stayed in Paris from 1929 to 1932 where he participated in several Parisian exhibitions.
He received the Wilhelm Gimmi Prize in 1969 shortly before his death.
From 1932, he taught at the cantonal school of drawing and applied art in Lausanne, which he directed in 1933-1934 and from 1945 to 1955.
Museums: Paris Musée d'Art Moderne, Lausanne.
Bibliography: Edith Carey dir., Casimir Reymond, 1893-1969. His life and his work, Infolio, Gollion, 2010. Jordan et al., Casimir Reymond, sculptor, 1893-1969, 1974 see also Jean-Paul Berger, Belles-Lettres et les beaux-arts, in in Two centuries in red and green, Belles-Lettres de Lausanne, 1806-2006, p. 110-11