Louis Pastour (1876-1948) - Le pont de Sospel

Louis Pastour (1876-1948) 'Le pont de Sospel' oil on wood 37.5x46 cm sbd date 1929 Signed, located and dated on the back. The original frame with the missing parts to restore. Louis Pastour (1876-1948) is a French post-impressionist painter from Cannes. His favorite subjects are landscapes, seascapes and flowers. In 1902, he founded the Association des Beaux Arts de Cannes, of which he is the secretary-general. Through this association, the region's painters are brought to light by an annual exhibition. In 1912, he travels and paints in Egypt. In search of new landscapes, he paints in Morocco and Italy but it is in Cannes that he always returns because the city remains his main source of inspiration. Louis Pastour uses the knife technique to give life to his works, a painter of light with complete mastery of colors; he observes the light, seems to capture it, bold in execution, he nervously kneads the paste, lays it out in masses by the suddenness of frank flats slapped with the knife; in this way he creates dazzling skies where bright whites, raw yellows, and vermilion crimsons wonderfully coordinate. Recognized by critics as a poet-painter because of the names of poems they give to his works: Festival of Sun, Gold Reflections, Glory to the Morning. In 1928 he was entrusted with decorating the lower station of the Super-Cannes funicular, located on a hill in the Californe - Pezou district. Louis Pastour also produced advertising work for the Railways, the PLM (Paris Lyon Méditerranée) timetable and various magazines. His works can be found at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice and at the National Art Museum of Romania in Bucharest.