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Oil on panel signed Maurice F. Perrot* representing a cloudy landscape of the Ile aux Moines in the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, from the 20th century.
This painting is in good condition, signed lower right. Old label on the back and handwritten annotations (artist's address: Boulevard Brune in Paris).
Please note: some slight accidents and re-gilding on the frame, wear and tear, see photos.
French painter. Maurice Ferdinand Perrot received his artistic training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under the painters Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng. There, he acquired great technical mastery and a taste for classical and often virtuoso painting. He had no trouble seeing his works accepted at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he became a member in 1923. The portraits he exhibited at the Salon quickly earned him an excellent clientele, but it was his nudes, often modest but always evocative, that established his reputation. An excellent landscape painter, he produced Breton landscapes and Parisian views with a broad, bold brushstroke and vivid, bold colors. During the 1930s, he discovered Alsace, whose landscapes captivated him, and he exhibited there regularly until the 1960s (Huffel Gallery, Colmar). Maurice F. Perrot introduced his grandson, the painter Antoine Vincent, to painting. He died in 1974 (and not in 1935, as is sometimes shown online). See the website Les Atamanes Musée de Mirecourt.
Artist highly rated on Artprice (referenced as Maurice François Perrot).
