Louis Pastour (1876-1948) ''the Bridge Of Sospel

Louis Pastour (1876-1948) ''Le pont de Sospel" huile sur bois  37.5x46 cm sbd date 1929 
Contresigne ,situe et date au dos .
le cadre d'origine avec les manques a restaurer .
Louis Pastour (1876-1948) was a French post-impressionist painter from Cannes. His favorite subjects were landscapes, seascapes and flowers In 1902, he founded the Association of Fine Arts in Cannes, of which he is the general secretary. Through this association, the painters of the region are highlighted by an annual exhibition. In 1912, he travels and paints in Egypt. the search for new landscapes, he painted in Morocco and Italy but it is in Cannes that he always returns because the city remains his main source of inspiration. Louis Pastour uses the knife technique to give life to his works, painter light with total mastery of colors, he observes the light, seems to capture it, violent in his execution, he nervously grinds the dough, lays it out en masse by the suddenness of frank flat tints thrown with a knife; in this way he creates dazzling skies or the white s bright, the raw yellows, the vermilions sanglais concert marvelously. Recognized by critics as a poet painter because of the names of poems they give to his works: Fête de soleil, Reflets d'or, Gloire au matin. In 1928 he was entrusted with the decoration of the lower station of the Super-Cannes funicular, located on a hill in the Californie - Pezou district. Louis Pastour also produces advertising work for the Railways, the PLM agenda (Paris Lyon Méditerranée) and various magazines. His works can be found at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice and at the National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest.