HERBO Fernand French Painting XXth Century View of Normandy Honfleur and its port Oil on canvas signed

HERBO Fernand (1905/1995)

Honfleur and its port.

Oil on canvas signed lower left.

60x81 cm

Fernand HERBO, Born March 18, 1905 in Orchies / Died August 21, 1995 (aged 90).

Fernand Herbo is a painter from Montmartre established in Honfleur (Calvados), born in Orchies in 1905, and died in Honfleur in 1995.

In his youth in Montmartre, Fernand Herbo produced posters, theater and cinema sets, and worked alongside painters Maurice de Vlaminck and Othon Friesz.

In 1938, Herbo left Paris and settled permanently in Honfleur. His work, powerful and imprint of dark colors, dedicated to the sea, boats and ports, earned him to be appointed painter of the French Navy in 1944. It is from this date that will be affixed to his signature of the traditional anchor of the Painters of the Navy.

In 1945, the State acquired his work Le quai de Jemmapes (1942), and awarded it to the National Museum of Modern Art at the Center Georges-Pompidou.

In the early 1950s, Fernand Herbo met the French gallery owner and poet Katia Granoff, who exhibited him in his new gallery in Honfleur. Katia Granoff, great talent scout (she exhibited and revealed among others Marc Chagall and Othon Friesz, and promoted the rediscovery of the series Les Nymphéas by Claude Monet) thus introduces the School of the Estuary of the Seine, including Fernand Herbo is one of the representatives.

Fernand Herbo opened in Honfleur with his wife Micheline in 1952 the Bar des Artistes (now known as the Bistrot des Artistes), the ceiling of which is entirely decorated by Herbo and above which is his studio. The Artists' Bar then becomes a meeting place for painters from Honfleur.

Fernand Herbo is responsible for more than 1 works, mainly oil paintings and watercolors. A privileged setting for his painting, the city of Honfleur paid homage to him by naming one of its quays after his name.

Died in 1995, several of his works are exhibited at the Eugène-Boudin Museum in Honfleur, where a room bears his name.

The town of Honfleur gave its name to a quay in the city.

The Eugène-Boudin Museum in Honfleur has 23 paintings by Fernand Herbo.