…Not an artist I had ever heard of, but I came away impressed by this discovery courtesy of the Musée Regards de Provence.
Joseph Inguimberty was born in Marseille back in 1896. Here, one of his early works captured the scenes in the docks of his home town. 
This muscular scene of dockers loading the boats took place right outside the Musée Regards de Provence, back in 1923.
Halong Bay
The painter then moved to Vietnam to take up a teaching post, and the gallery has a wonderful room of his landscapes and lyrical views of rice-collectors, fishermen and elegant ladies in gardens of exotic vegetation.
War in 1945 forced his move back to France – to Menton his wife’s home town – and there are some nice landscapes of the town and of his family relaxing in the summer sunshine.
Elsewhere, there are landscapes capturing the Alpilles, Provencal villages and (my favourite) views of the Calanque de Sormiou.
If you decide to visit this show – and I do recommend it – it might be a good idea to go after the 17th June, when there is a second exhibition starting in the musée, ‘Escales Mediterranées’.
Website here: http://www.museeregardsdeprovence.com/exposition/poesie-de-joseph-inguimberty
Dates on the poster below….
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