20TH CENTURY FRENCH OIL PAINTING 'BRITTANY LANDSCAPE' BY JACQUES DENIER

20th Century French oil on canvas painting of a Brittany landscape by Jacques Denier [1894-1983].

Signed to the lower middle edge by the artist. In a simple wooden frame. 

About the Artist: After studying science, Jacques Denier turned to painting and entered the Académie de La Grande Chaumière as a student of Lucien Simon and René Ménard. He is best known for his paintings of southwestern Algeria. Denier exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Tuileries, of which he was a founding member, at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants (1927-1929) and at the Salon d'Automne, of which he became a member in 1921. He was also a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He painted local scenes, landscapes of all kinds, and Orientalist subjects, and was also a draftsman and colorist. He received the Blumenthal Prize, the Abd-el-Tif Prize in 1923, and the Dru Prize in 1929. Jacques Denier died on May 19, 1983, in Arzon (Morbihan, France).