Circa 1920 : "the Harvests"

Table circa 1920: “Les moissons”, oil on canvas 46 X 33 cm, mounted in a restoration frame stripped with a primer showing the wood in places 53 X 49 cm. Ooh La La ! it makes me funny to see him again in the light of day! This painting has accompanied me for at least 30 years and, seeing it again, I still find it so interesting. I had found it under another orientalist painting for which it served as a frame (see photo) which makes me think that it could have been made in the Atlas, even if the technique, with its partitioning, its touch that s 'widens towards the front of the painting to focus the gaze on the background, reminds me more of the Swiss like Vallotton or Hodler… I am delivering this painting to you while I can still climb into my attic where I installed my "Ripening room", namely a kind of picture library where I stored quality works, but with an illegible signature, or even anonymous while waiting for serendipity to make me meet his brother in a catalog, a book or an exhibition, thus allowing them to be identified… Oh! It still happens to me three or four times a year, sometimes on works acquired 30 years previously, sometimes the previous month. If an Internet user has a lead, I thank him in advance and let him know that it is better to deal with a very thin rather than a fat dwarf! Do not hesitate to ask us by mail or telephone for additional information or photos. We have many objects and paintings to restore in our store in Pau for which we prefer to sell on site, preferably in lots! Other photos and many other objects in our stores in Pau and Biarritz and on our website: galerielhoste.com.