Charles Martin-Sauvaigo Mountain Landscape Oil - Grande Chartreuse - Signed

  
Oil on wood by Charles Martin-Sauvaigo - Mountain Landscape - Representing the Grande Chartreuse massif - Signed lower right and on the back. Stamp of official authentication on the back by Jean-Pierre Martin. Very nice landscape and beautiful light. Some dirt and missing at the edge visible in the photos which does not detract from the beauty of the painting.

46x38 cm outside the frame. Overall frame in good condition. Bio of the site "official painters of the Navy".

Charles Martin-Sauvaigo was a painter born in Nice on February 7, 1881 and died in Paris on November 9, 1970. Very young, at the instigation of Felix Ziem who had noticed his qualities, he turned to drawing and painting. After being under the direction of A for some time. Mossa at the School of Decorative Arts in Nice. He came to Paris and was introduced to the National School of Fine Arts in November 1900.

Following the teachings of Léon Bonnat until 1905, he became a permanent student in 1906. Financially supported by the city of Nice, he won many competitions that made him known. Thus, he received his first important orders for the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture. Official painter of the navy in 1922, sauvaigo-bateaux.

jpg he was one of the founders of the Société des Beaux-Arts de la Mer and he knew how to bring together artists from his native region. Linked to the Decorative Arts movement of the Société des Arts Français, he participated in the great Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, of which he was the winner. Charles Martin-Sauvaigo also exhibited at the 1931 Paris colonial exhibition with several vast dioramas.

And finally at the 1937 Paris Universal Exhibition, where its huge diorama of more than 440 square meters decorated the Côte d'Azur pavilion..