20th century French painting View of Normandy Honfleur and its port Oil on canvas signed (HERBO Fernand)

Biography

HERBO Fernand (1905 / 1995)
HERBO Fernand (1905 / 1995) Fernand HERBO, Born March 18, 1905 in Orchies / Died August 21, 1995 (aged 90). Fernand Herbo is a painter from Montmartre established in Honfleur (Calvados), born in Orchies in 1905, and died in Honfleur in 1995. In his youth in Montmartre, Fernand Herbo created posters, theater and cinema sets, and worked in particular with the painters Maurice de Vlaminck and Othon Friesz.

In 1938, Herbo left Paris and settled permanently in Honfleur.
His work, powerful and imbued with dark colors, dedicated to the sea, boats and ports, earned him the appointment of painter to the French Navy in 1944.

It is from this date that the traditional anchor of the Painters of the Navy will be affixed to his signature. In 1945, the State acquired his work Le quai de Jemmapes (1942), and attributed it to the national museum of modern art at the Center Georges-Pompidou. At the beginning of the 1950s, Fernand Herbo met the French gallery owner and poet Katia Granoff who exhibited it in her short story Honfleur gallery.
Katia Granoff, a great discoverer of talent (she exhibited and revealed, among others, Marc Chagall and Othon Friesz, and encouraged the rediscovery of the series Les Nymphéas by Claude Monet) thus introduced the School of the Estuaire de la Seine, of which Fernand Herbo is one of the representatives. Fernand Herbo opened the Bar des Artistes in Honfleur with his wife Micheline in 1952 (now the Bistrot des Artistes), whose ceiling is entirely decorated by Herbo and above which is his workshop.

The Artists' Bar then became a meeting place for painters from Honfleur.
We owe Fernand Herbo more than 1000 works, mainly oil paintings and watercolors. A privileged setting for his painting, the town of Honfleur paid tribute to him by naming one of its quays after him.

Died in 1995, several of his works are exhibited at the Eugène-Boudin Museum in Honfleur, where a room bears his name. The town of Honfleur gave his name to a quay in the city.

The Eugène-Boudin Museum in Honfleur preserves 23 paintings by Fernand Herbo.
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