Painters Savoyards / Emile Simonot

Emile Simonot (1893-1977) - Dolomieu Born in 1893, he is a leading figure in the city of Chambery. How the qualifier. This humanistic to the long greying beard, big and strong with a straw hat. He is a lover of nature and including a Mushroom warned. He is interested in all the arts. But its pottery and paintings will return to posterity. Before the Second World War, especially Emile Simonot exerts its talented potter. He is a leading figure of pottery avoyarde whose decor and the colors are very distinctive. His pottery factories had been destroyed during the war, he decided to devote himself to painting. A friend of Francis Cariffa, Henri Mège, Joseph Communal and other very quickly his paintings have success. There is still nature, landscapes of Savoie. Fall inspires him, his painting reflects this attraction to the warm colors, yellow, red, brown… For 50 years, he exhibited regularly in Chambéry whose Petite Gallery welcomes recent paintings. He is a member of the Society savoisienne of Fine Arts.

Here is a non-exhaustive gallery of the artist :