Old oil on canvas painting School of Rouen Cannes Marcel Cramoysan XX

Old oil painting on canvas by Marcel Cramoysan, painter of the Rouen school. 20th century, marine painting presenting a view of Cannes and the beach. In very good condition, beautiful composition, signed at the bottom right. Frame dimensions 53 by 39 cm and painting 41 by 27 cm. About. Marcel Cramoysan, born in Étretat on 1 January 1915 and died in Bois-Guillaume on 26 April 2007, was a French painter and lithographer of the Rouen School. A student of the post-impressionist Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886-1943), Marcel Cramoysan is a figurative painter whose work mainly focuses on landscapes, primarily Norman, but also still lifes, floral compositions, circus scenes, and rare portraits. Cramoysan decorates the school in Étretat with canvases illustrating the Fables of La Fontaine or the Tales of Perrault. Upon its inauguration in 1957, this school was declared the "most beautiful school in France" by Raymond Lindon. Based at 8, rue Quesney in Rouen, this "little master in the clear and luminous lineage of the painters of the Rouen School" is first appreciated by collectors and galleries in Rouen, then in Paris: he joins the Pétridès gallery, where his works are displayed alongside those of Vlaminck, Foujita, and Utrillo. He practises lithography from the 1970s. He sells his works in Japan, through the Taménaga gallery. He is invited to numerous exhibitions in France (Paris, Rouen, Albi, Montpellier, Béziers…) and abroad (Switzerland, Japan).