Claude BONIN-PISSARRO (1921-2021). Landscape. Oil on canvas signed and dated (19)57 lower right (craquelure and slight loss of material). Height : 38 cm - Width : 55 cm Claude BONIN-PISSARRO, grandson of Camille PISSARRO, is a French painter and Resistance fighter. During the Occupation, he was commissioned by the Musée du Louvre and the Musée de Calvet to protect and safeguard works of art that had been moved to the Château de Javon near Avignon. He trained in art history at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and later became a teacher at the Ecole des Métiers d'Art in Paris. Inspired by Fauvist works, he mainly depicts landscapes, forests, gardens and seashores. "I've never left nature. Stemming from it, I am in a way nature". Provenance: Luc Mancel private collection