Francis Montanier
Francis Montanier
(1895 – 1974)
‘La plage aux galets noir’
Oil on board
France
1948
Signed and dated ‘Montanier 48’
Height 54 cm Width 65 cm
Frame: Height 81 cm Width 92 cm
Francis Montanier was born in Lyon in 1895 and started his artistic career in 1923. In 1924 he won a bronze medal at the Salons des Artistes Francais and in the same year he won Le Prix de Rome in Rome, where he spent a great deal of time painting.
His work is exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, as well as many museums around the world.
  
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