Paul GAGE, 'Mountain Village', Mid-Century French School

38 x 46 cm 
Oil on panel, signed lower right
 
Paul Gage (1902-1983) was a French painter, draughtsman and watercolourist, known for his landscapes. Gage was a self-taught painter. He studied architecture at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, leaving in 1922 after being awarded first prize. He painted landscapes of Brittany, Allier, central France, the south of France, Italy, Spain, tas well as North Africa. He lived in North Africa for a time, and there he married his wife Emilie, herself the daughter of the painter Alexandre Rigotard.