Maurice Ménardeau

Maurice Ménardeau was a student in Paris, but had his studies interrupted by World War I. In 1917, the ship on which he was serving as a radio operator near the island of La Réunion was hit by a German submarine, but the crew managed to bring the ship safely to the UK. Once there, Ménardeau began to devote himself to painting. As a marine painter, he made extensive trips to Indo-China, South Africa and South America in the 1930s and 1940s, and then to Spain, Morocco and Portugal. He mainly painted maritime scenes, market scenes and pictures of Bretons.