Le Fumeur Menard Conditions: The painting and its

Conditions: The painting and its frame are in very good condition overall

becomes the focal point of the composition through the detailed rendering of its wool and the concentration of light that falls across its body

A delicate port scene capturing the quiet stillness of a moored boat resting beneath the quays

the foreground is textured with energy

Le Fumeur Menard Conditions: The painting and its20th century oil on canvas, signed lower right Marie Madeleine Masson (19011977). A label affixed to the lower edge of the frame gives the title Le Fumeur (The Smoker) and the date 1939. A moody and singular portrait, this bust length depiction presents a male figure in three quarter view, his face tilted downward. He wears round glasses, and only the head is fully worked. The face is constructed in fractured planes of color, greens, ochres, muted