Oil Painting on Wood Panel Bouquet of Peonies in the Terracotta Jug. Sign Martin-Sauvaigo France 1940

Oil painting on wood panel Bouquet of peonies in the terracotta jug.
Sign Martin-Sauvaigo France 1940

This bouquet of colorful peonies in shades of red, orange, and pink are presented with a country note that offers a natural lightness to the work.
The background shows a white drape and a wall where a frame hangs.

Charles Martin-Sauvaigo
Birth
February 7, 1881
Nice
Death
November 9, 1970 (at age 89)
14th arrondissement of Paris
Nationality
French
Activity
Painter
Training
Massena High School
Distinction
Officer of the Legion of Honor
After having spent some time under the direction of Alexis Mossa at the school of decorative arts in Nice, he came to Paris and was admitted to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in November 1900 in the workshops of Léon Bonnat (until ‘in 1905).

Appointed official painter of the Navy in 1922, he was one of the founders of the Society of Fine Arts of the Sea and brought together artists from his native region. Linked to the Decorative Arts movement of the Société des arts français, he participated in the international exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts of 1925, of which he was a winner. Charles Martin-Sauvaigo also exhibited at the Paris International Colonial Exhibition of 1931 with several large dioramas, and finally at the 1937 Universal Exhibition in Paris, where his immense diorama of more than 440 square meters decorated the Côte d’Ivoire pavilion. ‘Azure.