Early 20th Century French School Signed Oil on Canvas — Provençal Landscape With Olive Trees and Mountain by G. Fauly — Unframed

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A sun-drenched Provençal landscape — a dusty path winding through scrubland, ancient olive trees twisting in the foreground, a rocky … Read more A sun-drenched Provençal landscape — a dusty path winding through scrubland, ancient olive trees twisting in the foreground, a rocky mountain peak rising in the warm haze beyond. Painted with the confident, broken brushwork of the Post-Impressionist plein air tradition — the palette pure Mediterranean: ochre, sage, dusty rose, cerulean.Signed lower right: G. Fauly. The subject and handling are firmly in the tradition of painters who worked the landscapes of southern France in the early decades of the 20th century — the light-filled, unpretentious tradition that ran from Cézanne's Provence through a generation of talented regional painters.Unframed. On board. See less