Louis Fortuney 1975-1951 - Les marchandes de poisson vers Marseille

Magnificent and large pastel on paper measuring, without the frame, approximately 33 x 50 cm and signed at the bottom left, Fortuney.
Louis Ernest Fortuné Andrieux is a French painter, fresco artist, engraver, lithographer and pastel artist born in 1875. For reasons of homonymy with Louis Andrieux, he adopts the pseudonym Fortuney.

He is a friend of Rodin and paints with him in the south of France, in Cagnes-sur-Mer..

Fortuney is inspired by the sea, Breton light and the Mediterranean light. He obtained a state commission for large canvases intended to decorate the Ministry of the Navy, but despite the rumor was never, officially, a Navy painter.

Fortuney painted many genre scenes depicting women in the streets of Paris, as well as seascapes. He is an expert in handling pastel, which was very fashionable in the belle époque, and excels at rendering the velvety texture of fabrics and human skin tones.

Alongside a very Parisian inspiration, he deploys in his seascapes and in his port scenes sketched on the fly a sharp vigor, which contrasts with the virtuosity of his genre scenes.

Fortuney died in 1951
Pastel in excellent condition with its colors still very vivid and will be sold in its protective frame but without the glass to prevent postal damage.