Old Boats in Provence Oil on Canvas Painting by Felix Eugene Bellenot

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Superb oil on canvas painting by Felix Eugene Bellenot (1892 - 1963). This vibrant and passionate composition represents the port … Read more Superb oil on canvas painting by Felix Eugene Bellenot (1892 - 1963). This vibrant and passionate composition represents the port of Ste Maxime in France within the foreground of the famous fishing boats typical of the French Riviera. Very lively and fresh execution with a post-cubist influence, mixing clean lines and very contrasting colors.
The signature on the lower right corner reads F. Bellenot
The painting is newly installed in an elegant gilded wood frame, constructed with a bleached wood matte.
The last three pictures show the painting before framing.
Measurements:
With frame: 17.32 in. high (44.5 cm) x 20.90 in. wide (53 cm) x 1.57 in. deep (4 cm).
Opening view: 12.20 in. high (31.5 cm) x 15.35 in. wide (39.5 cm).

About:
Félix Eugène Bellenot, son of Victor Bellenot and Jeanne Valérie Delduc, was born on February 11, 1892, in Grasse and is a French painter often considered an orientalist painter, having lived part of his life in Morocco. He studied at the Académie Colarossi, like Amedeo Modigliani, in the Montparnasse district from 1920 to 1936. Félix Bellenot was a friend of André Derain, Charles Despiau and Paul Belmondo. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne from 1920 to 1930, at the Galerie Chéron in 1925 and at the Salon des Tuileries from 1925 to 1935. He continued his art in Morocco, where he settled from 1936 to 1961. Félix Bellenot founded in Casablanca , the School of Fine Arts, and teaches painting.
He returned to France, in the Provence region, at the end of his life and died on January 2, 1964, in Monaco. He mainly painted nudes "Leda and the swan" is one of his favorite subjects. We also owe him many landscapes of Morocco and typical scenes of its inhabitants. We can cite landscapes and views of the Mediterranean coast in the south of France on the Riviera.
In 1925 he decorated one of the pillars of the famous Parisian restaurant La Coupole.
He is the great-grandson of the Franco-Russian writer Jean-Marie Chopin and the great-grandnephew of the painter Henri Frédéric Schopin.
Sources:
André Alauzen Di Genova and Laurent Noet, Dictionary of painters and sculptors of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille, Éditions Jeanne Laffitte, December 7, 2006 (1st ed. 1986), 473 p.
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