Paul Bazé (1901-1985) Old painting signed Oil on wood Painter Bayonne

  
He entered the École des beaux-arts et arts décoratifs de Bordeaux in 1919 as a student of Paul Quinsac. In 1923, as a scholarship holder from the city of Bordeaux, he became a student of Lucien Simon at the École des beaux-arts de Paris.

He received the Brizard prize in 1926 and an honorable mention at the Salon des artistes français, and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1928. Paul Bazé lived in Rome at the Villa Medicis from 1929 to 1932, while continuing to exhibit at the Salon Les Planteurs in 1932. Desiring to continue his training, he became a resident at Casa Velasquez in Madrid. The Spanish Civil War caught up with him there.

While he was in the Palace of Moncloa, he was narrowly evacuated, but all of his works were lost in the fire that destroyed Casa Velasquez. Later, in 1967, he became the curator of the Bonnat Museum in Bayonne, where he settled in 1938. A square in Bayonne bears his name. Signed at the bottom right.

Dimensions of the blackened wood frame: 26.5x21.5 cm.