Attributed to Pierre De Berroeta, no coa, private collection, medium: oil, measurements: 29"HX41"W framed, good condition, Biography:Pierre De Berroeta was born in France and attended the École des Beaux Arts de Paris in 1933 where he studied under Dewambez and Guérin. He exhibited extensively at the major Paris Salons, where his work found an enthusiastic audience, such as the Salon d’Automne, Salon des Independants, and Salon des Comparaisons. His early work was much inspired by the Basque landscape which he frequented throughout his life, and where he would eventually buy a farmhouse. But in 1939 he was enlisted and subsequently found himself a prisoner of war in Pomerania, however the guards permitted him to draw, and he also befriended fellow artist Jean Starck. Surviving the war he moved to Buenos Aires with his wife in 1945, where the bold colours and bright light would prove influential in his work, and he held several exhibitions, including at the Wildenstein gallery in Buenos Aires (the gallery also showed his work in Paris).