Watercolor By Abel Bertram Fishing Boat

Watercolor by Abel Bertram, signed lower left, under mat, under glass, in a mahogany baguette frame. Two brownings on the left. Dimensions at sight of the watercolor 15x21.5 cm Total dimensions, with frame, 34.5x41 cm Listed artist (Benezit, Petits Maîtres de la Peinture - Valeur de Demain - Gérald Schurr), Abel Bertram, born in Saint-Omer (Not -de-Calais) on September 9, 1871, and died in Paris on August 3, 1954, is a French painter. Son of a transporter, Abel Bertram learned the basics of his art in his hometown before settling in Lille where he became a student for three years at the school of fine arts in the studio of Pharaon de Winter (1849 -1924) 1 then he was admitted to the Ecole Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Léon Bonnat (1833-1922). In 1900, he moved to Ponthieu, while retaining links with the capital, since in 1904 he had his workshop at no 59 rue Caulaincourt, and in 1908 at no 10 rue Seveste. In 1923 and 1928, he lived at no 23 boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr in Paris. In 1901, he met Antoine Guillemet who gave him valuable advice for the execution of the work on the motif. He paints landscapes, nudes (Naked Sitting, Museum of Modern Art in Paris), and seascapes in Finistère in a fawn style very tempered by gray skies and hazy horizons. He settled permanently in Paris in 1927, returning regularly to Saint-Omer to paint the landscapes of Picardy on the motif. Member of the Salon d'Automne, he exhibited there regularly as well as at the Salon des Tuileries and in 1926 participated in the retrospectives of the Independents with his paintings Le Livre, La petite Eva, Sortie de maison and Rue de village. At the Indépendants in 1927, he exhibited Yellow Water and Green Water, then in 1928 Bather and Reclining Nude and in 1929 a nude and another unnamed canvas. At the National Society of Fine Arts, he exhibited in exhibition. Works in public collections: In France Abbeville, Boucher-de-Perthes museum: View of the Port of Gravelines, the lighthouse of Petit-Fort-Philippe, oil on canvas. Paris: modern art museum of the city of Paris: Landscape of Greenery, oil on canvas; Seated nude, oil on canvas; Landscape, circa 1940, oil on canvas. National Museum of Modern Art: Boats on the river, drawing; Thatched cottages by the water, drawing. Petit Palais: Baie de Somme, oil on canvas 3. Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Musée du Touquet-Paris-Plage: Marine, before 1939?, Oil on canvas, Musenor [archive] In Switzerland Geneva, Petit Palais: Reclining nude with black stockings. Salons: Salon of French artists: 1899; 1905: The Bay of Somme; 1907: Reflections on the water; 1908: The Shepherd. Salon des Independents from 1905 to 1939 Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts: from 1912 to 1939; 1914: The Green Hat. Autumn Salon from 1919 to 1938 Salon des Tuileries from 1924 to 1943 Personal exhibitions: Galerie J. Le Chapelin in Paris from March 14 to 29, 1952 Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris from January 23 to February 8, 1959 Galerie Drouant in Paris Galerie Mady Bonnard in Paris from March 24 to April 20, 1961 Collective exhibitions: Saint-Louis Liège Pittsburgh Berlin