Umbrella pines, Robert Fleurent, 1967

Subject: Landscape, the French Riviera, umbrella pines. Support: Oil on heavy paper. Dimensions: 35 X 27.5 cm. Condition: Good overall condition, see photos. Period: Dated 1967. Stamp of Robert Fleurent's studio. Robert Fleurent, born in Bois-Colombes on June 6, 1904, was the son of Émile Charles Albert Fleurent and Marthe Pauline Velter. He studied under Alphonse Defrasse, Joseph Marrast, and Louis Madeline. He lived in Paris and then in Chatou until 1951, before moving to Saint-Raphaël. He was a landscape painter. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in the 1930s. He died in 1981.