Maurice MENARDEAU (1897-1977) Vue de Paris, place Pigalle Oi - Lot 80

Maurice MENARDEAU (1897-1977) Vue de Paris, place Pigalle Oil on panel, signed and located lower right. 25 x 30 cm MAURICE MENARDEAU (1897-1977) Appointed official painter to the French Navy in 1936, Maurice Ménardeau traveled the world, notably to Indochina, Africa, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Mauritius, where he spent the rest of his life with his second wife. He is considered one of the island's finest painters. At the start of his career in Paris in the 1920s, he set out to discover the Breton coast. From 1924, Concarneau became his home port. Here he met many painters and friends, including Henri Barnoin, Lucien-Victor Delpy and Fernand Daucho. The year 1963 marked the end of the painter's missions for the French Navy, and Ménardeau became an emblematic figure of the town of Concarneau, where he settled. During this period, he took part in numerous exhibitions in Brittany and regularly travelled the roads of France, Spain and Portugal in search of landscapes and scenes to paint. This set comes from the private collection of the artist's nephew.