Le port de Cannes
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“Le port de Cannes”, oil on canvas by Bernard de Guinhald (1885-1979), signed lower left, datable to the late 1930s. The simplification of the forms and the alignment of the colors on the lighter blue express in perfect post-impressionist language the effects of light on the atmosphere and the sea, according to the keys preferred by the many painters who loved Provence. As the writings on the frame indicate, De Guinhald made this painting when he resided in Cagnes su Mer, a few kilometers from Cannes, a location also chosen by several other painters, including Pierre Auguste Renoir, George-Emile Lebacq, etc .; on the frame there is anco