Commissioned from the French painter Pierre de Belay in 1923, the decoration of the Ker-Moor Hotel's dining room is being auctioned in December. The end of an era for the five pictures that launched the artist's career.
Pierre de Belay (1890-1947), Le Pardon de Sainte-Anne-la-Palud, 1923, oil on canvas, 185 x 412 cm.
Estimate: €45,000/50,000
A stone's throw from the beach in Bénodet, the Brittany resort, the Ker-Moor is one of the last remaining hotels of character that flourished by the sea in the Roaring Twenties. Owned by the Daniel family for four generations, it is shortly going up for sale. For Jean-Charles Daniel, this means parting from a treasure that includes the magnificent restaurant decoration commissioned…
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