Martigues, 120 cm, Marcel MASSON (Antoine BLANCHARD) 1910/1988, Côte d’Azur, French School

Martigues, Marcel MASSON (Antoine BLANCHARD) 1910/1988, Côte d’Azur, French Provencal School.

Signed: lower left, M. Masson, Referenced artist. French Provencal School.

Oil painting on canvas, in very good condition

Subject: Marine, View of Martigues, Mediterranean, Côte d’Azur

Period: circa 1950/60

Sizes: 60 x 120 cm

Frame: no frame

Marcel MASSON (Antoine BLANCHARD) 1910 / 1988:
Antoine Blanchard, real name Marcel Masson, is a French landscape painter, born in a village on the banks of the Loire on November 15, 1910 and died on August 10, 1988.
Born into a family of small industrialists in carpentry. He learned drawing in Blois and joined the École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes in 1929. Three years later, in 1932, he enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Recognized by his peers, he was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1935 after three years of study. He served in the French army in World War II. After the war, he won a prize from the French Minister of Fine Arts and exhibited in the best galleries in Paris.
His father called him back to take care of the family business, and he practically gave up drawing, which he would only resume in 1948. Marcel Masson began his career as a set designer for theater and cinema. He was then advised by Vlaminck when he began easel painting. The walls of Montmartre and the suburbs were his favorite subjects in a style that evoked the works of the Japanese artist Oguiss. The Marie Wild gallery hung it on its walls. At the 1958 show, he exhibited three paintings: Rue des Norvins sous la neige, Mairie du Vieux-Montmartre and Devant l'église Saint-Pierre.
In order to attract an American clientele, he adopted a lighter palette and painted scenes of Paris in the 1900s. Many of the subjects and scenes he painted came from a collection of images of the streets of Paris at the end of the 19th century. He adopted a pseudonym while leafing through the phone book at random and signed "Antoine Blanchard"; he then launched into a frenzied production of quality paintings, in a style depicting Paris during the Belle Époque influenced by the art of Eugène Galien-Laloue. His success was instantaneous and would not wane. The paintings signed with his pseudonym enjoy a high rating, compared to the more intimate paintings signed with his real name.
He died at the age of 78.
Acquisition of five paintings by Marcel Masson by the Paris City Hall. Marcel Masson was exhibited at La Galerie Marie WILD, at the Salon des Indépendants (of which he was a member), but also at the Salon d'Hiver, the Populist salons, and at the Nationale des Beaux Arts.
1979 - Café de la Paix in Paris
1988 - Antoine Blanchard exhibition in Chicago on Paris during the Belle Époque, Wally Findlay gallery, publication of an illustrated brochure of 23 works in color.
Source: Bénézit

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