Oil and pastel cardbord painting, representing the Seine's banks, a village and the bell tower of a church in the background.

Signed in the bottom right-hand corner EA Pavil.

Very good condition.

Measurements : 35 cm height by 50 cm wide.

Measurements including the frame : 50 cm height by 65 cm wide.

This artwork is posterior to 1912

Pierre-Yves Gallard is at this time preparing the artist's artworks catalog.

Elie Anatol Pavil was born in Odessa, in Ukraine, in 1873. He arrived in Paris and settled down in Montmartre in 1899. After studies at Julian Academy, under the direction of Bouguereau, he made a first exhibition at the Salon des Peintres de Paris in 1904. Others are going to follow soon: Salon des Artistes Indépendants , Salon des Artistes Français et Salon d'Automne. But, his first exhibition, with him alone to exhibit his work, took place at the Galerie Bernheim in 1907. Then, three times, in 1921, 1924, and 1929, the Galerie Georges Petit chose to exhibit the artist.

IN 1923, he made an exhibition with Picasso, Valadon, Van Dongen, and De Vlaminck, at 'Peinture Moderne Groupe III'.

In his favorite themes, there is Paris, its parks and gardens, and the Seine's riversides.

He became knight of the legion of honour in 1930. He dead in Rabat, in Morocco, in 1948.