Rene Lienard De Saint Delis, Pecheurs en Mer (Fishermen at Sea), c1920

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This artwork "Pecheurs en Mer (Fishermen at Sea) c.1920 is an oil painting on canvas by noted French artist Rene … more This artwork "Pecheurs en Mer (Fishermen at Sea) c.1920 is an oil painting on canvas by noted French artist Rene Lienard De Saint Delis, 1877-1958. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 23,5 x 28.5 inches, framed size is 33.5 x 38.85 inches. Framed in a new wooden gold frame with fabric liner. It is in good condition, Has minor stable non open cracks in the paint due to age, visible under raking light, see pictures 7-8-9

About the artist:
Born in 1876 in Saint-Omer, Eugène René is the second of four children of Antoine Albert Liénard of Saint-Delis (1840-1881), officer of the 5 th regiment of dragons and his wife Antoinette Emma Houet (1847 -1920). The birth of our artist is followed by that of his brother Henri (1878-1949), also a painter . The death of the illnesses of Captain Liénard de Saint-Delis led Emma to leave the Pas-de-Calais in 1881 to move to Le Havre with her four children.

After high school François-I of Le Havre where another student, Émile Othon Friesz , is his best friend, René de Saint-Delis attended successively the Municipal School of Fine Arts of Le Havre where, with his classmates, besides his brother Henri and Othon Friesz, others who will also become his friends ( Georges Braque , Raoul Dufy , Raimond Lecourt ), he follows the courses of Charles Lhuillier (a "great admirer of Boudin " at the same time as "he places the drawing first and foremost, forbidding his pupils to use color , and the Académie Julian in Paris, where from 1900 to 1904 he was a pupil of William Bouguereau . On January 29, 1906, Le Havre created the Circle of Modern Art, which consisted of artists (among them, René and Henri de Saint-Delis, their aforementioned friends, but also Gaston Prunier ) and Le Havre collectors, will organize until 1910 exhibitions affiliated to the Salon d'Automne in Paris, as well as musical and literary events to which Frantz Jourdain , Guillaume Apollinaire or Claude Debussy will participate .

The first period in the work of René de Saint-Delis thus consists of painted navies in Le Havre before he was, escaping the front because reformed in 1910, assigned in 1915 to the 3rd territorial section of military nurses in Étretat (he is precisely secretary-accountant of the hospital 111) where he meets Jeanne Fidelin (1895-?), young native then nurse of the auxiliary hospital. The Lisieux municipal library houses a rare collective work, entitled Pages et croquis: 1914-1918, collecting texts and drawings, among which is the signature of René de Saint-Delis, making our artist a witness of the First World War. .

Between 1916 and 1919, René de Saint-Delis went to Leysin in Switzerland several times to his brother Henri, who received extensive care against tuberculosis : hence his Waldensian landscapes such as the one preserved by the Alfred-Canel Museum of Pont-Audemer. His marriage to Le Havre on June 17, 1919 with Jeanne Fidelin made him settle permanently in Étretat, rue George-V . He then paints the daily life of the fishermen, the sea from the cliffs, the orchards and pastures that constitute the countryside Cauchoise: Marie-Hélène Desjardins restores in him a temperament "modest, living retired and caring little to be known, realizing in the shadow an abundant and original work " . In the evening of his life, he turns towards still lifes.

The features of René de Saint-Delis remain fixed by the portrait of Emile Othon Friesz and that today preserves the Museum of Modern Art André Malraux Le Havre. He remains perceived as "not being without common traits with Henry, his younger brother, and the formula of Rene" never give up the contact with nature "is characteristic of both of them which, until 'at the end of their long career, will study daily on the motive' .

Personal exhibitions
Eugène Blot Gallery, Paris, 1912.
Galleries Maury, Lebas and Beuzebosc, hall of the newspaper La Cloche, Le Havre , unspecified dates.
Casino Étretat, October-November 2018
Collective Exhibitions
Exhibition of the Society of Friends of the Arts, Le Havre, 1902 .
Salon des independants , Paris, from 1905 to 1950.

Collective Exhibitions
Exhibition of the Society of Friends of the Arts, Le Havre, 1902 .
Salon des independants , Paris, from 1905 to 1950.
Autumn Salon , Paris, from 1907 to 1910.
Salon of the French School, Paris, from 1924 to 1947.
Exhibition of Norman artists, Rouen, 1934.
Rouen Artists' Lounge, Rouen, dates not specified.
The collection of drawings by Paul and Florence Vercier , House of Culture of Le Havre , 1987.
René and Henri de Saint - Delis , refectory of Montivilliers Abbey , July - September 2008.
Impressionist Normandy - impressionist imprints , Bertran Gallery, Rouen, June-September 2010.
Water - Albert Copieux , Raimond Lecourt, René and Henri de Saint-Delis , refectory of Montivilliers Abbey, July-September 2013.
Evocation of the scenes of life in Etretat during the Great War , Espace Cramoysan, Étretat, July 2014.
René and Henri de Saint-Delis , Eugène-Boudin Museum, Honfleur, 2017.
Museums Collections
Rouen Museum of Fine Arts , The Port of Honfleur , oil on canvas, 1905.
André-Malraux Museum of Modern Art, Le Havre, Marine in Etretat and fishing boats , oils on canvas.
Eugène-Boudin Museum of Honfleur .
Musée des Terre-Neuvas and fishing , Fécamp , Still life with pears , oil on canvas; Étretat, launching a caique , painting on paper; drawings made at Etretat and Yport between 1930 and 1950.
Alfred-Canel Museum , Pont-Audemer , Mountain Landscape (Switzerland) , oil on canvas. less