Henri Jean PONTOY (1888-1968).
Street in the Casbah.
Oil on cardboard panel signed lower right.
Height : 52 - Width : 41 cm. 52 - Width : 41 cm (old restauration)
Henri-Jean Pontoy was born in Reims in 1888 and trained at the Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Luc-Olivier Merson. Close to the Barbizon School, the artist developed an attraction for the outdoors and painted from the ground up.
In 1926, he left for North Africa with a grant from the Colonial Society of French Artists. His favorite subjects were the kasbahs and souks of southern Morocco. Numerous portraits of Berbers complete his atypical landscapes bathed in light.
Close to Jacques Majorelle, Henri-Jean Pontoy was one of the last masters of the Orientalist movement in the first half of the 20th century, in the continuity of a tradition raised by Eugène Delacroix.
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