This fantastic work falls into the Collector Restorer category, for obvious reasons.
I really hope that there is someone skilled enough to bring this fantastic work of this enormous French artist back to life
Oil painting on canvas – signed and dated 1960
Canvas Size: 25 3/4 × 31 3/4 in (65.4 × 80.6 cm)
Frame Size: 32×38″
Artist biography
Marcel Mouly (1918 – 2008) was active / lived in France. He is known for modernist landscape, genre paintings. Marcel Mouly was a French painter associated with the Fauvism movement of the early 20th century. His colorful, abstract paintings were influenced by both the cubism of Pablo Picasso and the bold palette of Henri Matisse, and were shown alongside the latter’s paintings in the Salon d’Automne in Paris. Mouly was born on 6 February 1918 in Paris, France, and left school at the age of 13 to work, taking nightly drawing lessons on the side. After serving in World War II, he established a studio in Paris and, by 1940, Mouly’s work had attracted critical acclaim. In 1957 he was awarded the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et Lettres, and today his works are held in major institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Japan, the Geneva Museum, the Helsinki Museum of Modern Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. He died on January 7, 2008 in Paris, France.