Ulysse Gorrin, Oyster Huts

Painting, oil on canvas, representing boats and oyster farmers' huts in the port of Avallon near the town of Arvert in Charente Maritime.
Signed lower left U. Gorrin. Label on the back of the painting: oyster farmers' huts, port of Avallon.
Ulysse Gorrin, is a French landscape painter born in 1884. He mainly paints landscapes of Brittany and the region of Saintes.
He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris since 1929. He received a silver medal in 1936, the Corot prize and a gold medal in 1949. He is one of the curators of the Museum of Saintes. He died in 1965.
A retrospective of the painter's works was organized in Saintes in 1978

DIMENSIONS: With frame: 63.5 x 54.5 cm Without frame: 47 x 39 cm