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Oil on canvas depicting a marine landscape with a boat of fishermen on the Mediterranean, in the South of France probably in Marseille, signed L. Bonnot *, in a gilded stuccoed wooden frame, period late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This table is in good condition and its frame. Signed lower right.
A note: some minor accidents and lacks on the frame, time wear, see photos.
is a French painter (1855 -1936). Son of an easy shipowner, and little or not attracted by the sea, Louis Bonnot decides to devote his life to painting. Choosing to represent the water, the sea, Provence and the Mediterranean, he takes the pseudonym Lina Bill (last syllable of the surname of his companion Marie Billard associated with the third name of the baptism of the painter: Lin) and becomes watercolorist, although also practicing oil painting. He moved to Toulon as a painter and photographer during the 1880s. In 1886, he left Toulon and settled in Avignon. Lina Bill introduces herself as a student of Vincent Courdouan and Paul Saïn, with whom he worked in 1887. 1888 will be the year of his first participation at the Salon des artistes français where he presents The Rhone in Avignon. He then lives in Avignon, and more precisely in the district of Monclar. In 1891, he obtained the honorable mention at the Salon des artistes français with the Village of Gruissan. In 1894, he left Avignon to go to Marseille where he moved to the number 364 of the rue Paradis. 1895 will see his final return to Avignon.
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