Beautiful bouquet by Louis Mathieu VERDILHAN 1875-1928

"The Bouquet By Louis Mathieu Verdilan 1875-1928"
Beautiful and large oil on canvas measuring 73cm x 60cm plus frame 83cm x 96cm
signed lower left VERDILHAN MATHIEU
This painting is part of the most beautiful still life that the painter has done
A superb bouquet with yellow flowers in front of a painting representing a lane in Provence (two paintings in one)
Louis Mathieu Verdilhan born in Saint-Gilles-du-Gard on November 24, 1875 and died in Marseille on December 15, 1928 was a painter
His younger brother, André Alexandre Verdilhan, was also a painter but also a sculptor.
Louis Mathieu Verdilhan's family settled in the Chartreux district of Marseille in 1877. Coming from a poor family, he began an apprenticeship with a house painter in 1890, but learned to draw with the help of the Marseille painter Eugène Giraud (Marseille 1848-1937). In 1895, he opened a studio at 12, rue Fort-Notre-Dame, which he kept all his life. In 1898, he left for Paris for the first time and worked for the decorator Adrien Karbowsky, who was responsible for part of the ornamentation of the Salon du Bois of the Pavillon des Arts Décoratifs for the 1900 Universal Exhibition. He returned to Marseille the following year. In 1902, he lost his left eye, which did not prevent him from painting.
His artistic career began in 1902 in Marseille with an exhibition in the rue Saint-Ferréol and then, in 1905, an exhibition at the Architects' Palace on the avenue du Prado. He also exhibited in Paris in 1906 at the Salon des indépendants: Fields of Poppies (1906), Priest and Altar Boy (1910), Place de l'horloge (1911), House with Almond Tree (1913), The Flower Jug (1914). From 1908 he also participated in the Salon d'automne. In 1909, he spent six months in Versailles where he produced many paintings. From 1910 to 1914 he occupied a studio at 12, quai de Rive Neuve, in the warehouses where the painters Girieud and Lombard had already set up shop - a place that would later become, from 1946 to 1993, the studio of the painter François Diana. Mobilized in Toulon during the First World War, Louis Mathieu Verdilhan rubbed shoulders with Albert Marquet, whose influence he underwent, but also with André Suarès and Antoine Bourdelle.
After the war, he lived successively in Aix-en-Provence, Cassis and Toulon. On March 16, 1919, he married Hélène Casile, the youngest daughter of painter Alfred Casile. His fame increased and he exhibited in New York at the Kraushaar Gallery. He painted a panel for the City of Marseilles for the Marseilles Opera: this canvas represents the 14th of July celebration in Marseilles and was very criticized during the inauguration of the Opera1.
Fascinated by the Vieux-Port, he painted more than 130 representations of it between 1913 and 1920
He died of cancer of the larynx on December 15, 1928. His widow remarried a polytechnic engineer, Gaston Vanneufville, and had a daughter: the actress Geneviève Casile.
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