Project Description

Oil on panel

Dimensions : 17, 3 cm x 25,10

Signed lower right Mahélin, plus cachet Atelier Robert Mahélin

One of the hamlets of St. Illide Cantal

Robert Paul Mahélin (31/12/1889 Paris – Cergy Pontoise 1968)

Pupil of his father lithographer Léon Louis Mahélin.

Painter of Montmartre and well known at the beginning of the 20th century, he exhibits regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français, at the Salon Violet and the Salon des Indépendants de 1927 at 1950. His work is varied : paintings, pastels, lithographs.

He painted Venice, Montmartre, the Buttes-Chaumont or the Sceaux park, in Cantal in the hamlet of Albart Saint Illide (three glass plates in the possession of the Pompidou Center, immortalize this very old hamlet including its Chapel photo N ° 12), in Poitou Charentes (two paintings are in the possession of the Getreaud Museum). He illustrated literary works

His art also extended to illustration, engraving., he became a member of the French Association of Lithographers.

Sources : E.Benezit - Dictionary of Painters, sculptors, designers and engravers.

Another countryside landscape is offered to you by the Gallery.