Lot 118A: Maurice Rocher, French School (1918-1995) FRENCH

Maurice Rocher, French School (1918-1995) FRENCH VILLAGE MOONLIGHT Oil on canvas, 24" x 36" (61 x 91.5 cm), signed. Born in Évron (Mayenne) in 1918 he studied at the School of Applied Arts in Mans from 1934-1936. After a time in Belgium where he made connections among the Belgian Expressionists Rocher entered the Atelier de l'Art Sacré. Rocher was to become one of the major religious artists of the twentieth century. In 1948 he was one of the founders of the Centre d'Art Sacré at which he taught until 1952. In 1949 he was one of the laureates of the Hallmark Prize with a painting entitled La Nativité; in 1952 he won the Priz de la Jeune Peinture. 119 AN EBONISED AND PARCEL GILT PARLOUR CHAIR c.1900 with buttoned velvet upholstery galleried back on ring turned fluted legs.