Brondy Mattéo (1866-1944) "ponche District In Saint-tropez" Provence Fauvism France Paris Var Ramatuelle

BRONDY Mattéo (1866-1944)

"The Ponche district in Saint-Tropez"

Oil on canvas,
Signed lower right,
Formerly dedicated "to my friend Castelli" before being covered by the artist,
Certainly exhibited at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris,

Beautiful luminous and brightly colored work by the painter Mattéo Brondy which represents a lively view of the Ponche district, a fishing district in Saint-Tropez. His talent is mastered and his colors are remarkably burning, marked by Fauvism.

An artist known mainly for his orientalist works, he produced a few rare paintings and watercolors on the South of France which were the subject of an exhibition in 1911 in Paris.
It was the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris that works in warm, colorful, southern colors were exhibited. The latter take us along the shores of the Mediterranean: to Saint-Tropez, to Le Lavandou.
His paintings are described as tasty, in pretty shimmering material and represent: "The fishing port, The boats at the quay, The road from Granier to Saint-Tropez".

A student at the Académie Julian in Paris, under the great masters Jules Lefèvre, Tony Robert-Fleury and Rochegrosse, he left the studio once in possession of his technique. Independent artist, loving life, travelling, he paints only for pleasure. He visits Italy, then Black Africa where the too powerful light does not seduce him. The assignments of the war bring him to North Africa, to Morocco, and more particularly to Meknes. He exhibits in Morocco, Algeria and Paris.

Mattéo Brondy confesses in a letter: "I consider that painting must be the image of life and fix as best it can the beautiful scenes that charm our eyes, the light must contribute to underline the effects and make them unalterable. in our memory. And what is true for large outdoor scenes is no less true for interior scenes where the subdued effects of the light combine to make the impression of calm and serenity that we feel more gripping. feel in spite of ourselves when we visit a medina."

It is in love with painting and the places that captivate him that he paints landscapes, everyday scenes, with remarkable talent or that he scribbles in his sketchbook.

Dimensions: 46 x 61 cm without frame and 60 x 76 cm with its wooden frame.

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