Marius Hubert Robert (1885-1947) - Watercolour French Street Scene

Description

A fine French post-impressionist watercolour scene by the painter and illustrator Marius Hubert-Robert (1885-1966), depicting a street with stone townhouses, cobbled road and figures. The setting is most likely in a rural town or village in France, and Marius is known for other compositions of similar dimensions.The artist's disregard for realist colours creates a dream-like and bucolic sense of place. Well-presented in a gilt mount and wooden frame, as shown. Signed. On wove.

Condition

The condition is typical for a picture of this age including some surface discolouration. Otherwise. in fine condition. The frame has some surface marks and scuffing, commensurate with its age, as shown.

Size

48.5 x 17.7cm (19.1" x 7")
Framed Size: 72.5 x 41cm (28.5" x 16.1")

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Artist Biography

Marius Hubert-Robert (1885-1966) was a French painter and illustrator, born in Paris in 1885. He is the great-great nephew of the celebrated landscape painter Hubert Robert (22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808). His artistic ancestry also includes Aphonse Robert (his grandfather) who was the private painter of Louis Philippe I, and Jean-Francois Robert (his great-grandfather, Professor of painting at the Grand Duchy of Tuscany during the Napoleonic Era.

Hubert-Robert mounted notable exhibitions at the Salon des Indépendants in 1929, at the Société des Artistes Français, at the Société Nouvelle des Beaux Arts, and at the Salon d'Hiver. He also worked in the 10th Army as a war-time artist during the First World War, and was sponsored by the Astor family for a number of years, allowing him to travel to the United States, Canada, Africa and Greece.