Léonie Humbert-Vignot, The Waves at Saint-Guénolé, circa 1920

LÉONIE HUMBERT-VIGNOT (Lyon, 1878-1960) Waves Crashing on the Rocks, Saint-Guénolé, Côte Sauvage, Finistère. Circa 1920. Oil on canvas. 54 x 56 cm (frame: 69 x 79.5 cm) Signed lower left: Humbert-Vignot. Inscribed in pencil on the stretcher: St. Guénolé, Côte Sauvage, Finistère. Stamp on the stretcher: Aux Deux Palettes, Lyon. Born in Lyon in 1878, Léonie Humbert-Vignot studied under Alexandre François Bonnardel at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon before completing her studies at the Académie Julian in Paris. She was a complete painter: still lifes, portraits, nudes, landscapes, seascapes, scenes of daily life, scenes of demonstrations, scenes of war. Throughout her life, she exhibited at the Salons of Lyon and Paris where she received numerous prizes and awards. Léonie Humbert-Vignot is certainly one of the greatest Lyonnaise painters of the 20th century. In 1951, she was awarded the title of Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur not only for her services to art but also for her work for the Red Cross during both world wars.