M, Menardeau specializes in sea paintings, and so naturally the portion of Shanghai which interests him the most is the Whangpoo River, This ig reflected in his pictures of daily life on the busy river that fives access to the sixth largest port inthe world, Walking along 'The Bund one fine morning, his eye catches a pleluresque river scene out fan the Whangpoo with, say, a Ningpo junk coming slowing' up river. He halls a sampan, and seats himself fon one of the smaller junks plying fon the river, 'Then he settles. down to recapture' the lines of a Chinese type of sea-going craft.
This painter seems quickly to be absorbed by his new environment, [iis paintings "of pagodas, river eones, and Shanghai street scenes, done' from a. stationary. ear), are most, realistic. He came to China specially to seek rew subjects for his paintings, and he wilt exhibit his best' works painted in the Orient in Paris next year, Ho will visit J and other parts of the Far' Bast before returning home.
'M. Mnardeau obtained his love of the sea through serving in the French merchant navy during the war. He had been studying painting for a year before the war in Paris, and Telurned to the studio in 1022. to specialize in sea scones. His home Brittany, and he roams around the countryside during the summer months setting up his easel here and there fo paint rural scenes which are exhibited in Paris during the winter.
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