A French oil on canvas painting by Robert Petit-Lorraine, signed by the artist in the bottom left corner.
Robert Petit (b. Nancy 1920 - d. Aubenas 2006) was a French painter, born to a father who worked as an art blacksmith. He began his artistic career in 1935, working as an apprentice for a master glass maker in Nancy. In May 1940, he and his family fled from Nancy to Aubenas in the
Ardèche, as a clandestine, he took the nickname of Lorraine.
His first exhibition of ink drawings took place in Vals-les-Bains in August 1942. During the war, he continued to draw and he began working for the press, designing various posters for the Resistance, becoming the cartoonist for the journal FTP under the name of Petit-Lorraine. Throughout his lifetime, Robert Petit-Lorraine also painted, taught as a master of drawing and was an illustrator to various works, including `Etroits sont les vaisseaux` by Saint John Perse, Nobel laureate in literature.
