GEORGES PARENT (Nevers, 1885-Bourges, 1945) Saint Benezet Bridge, Avignon Original canvas Signed, located and dated lower right: G. Parent/Avignon 1930 (or 1931) Height 33.5 cm - Width 55.5 cm Active around 1925, this Burgundian artist is rare on the market. He is notably known for having supplied cartoons to ceramists in the Nivernais region, or for having decorated the cul-de-four vault of the choir of the Saint-Loup church in St Honoré les Bains in 1932, with a bust of Christ blessing in a mandorla. The work was commissioned by his friend Pierre Walsdorff, a hotelier in Saint-Honoré-les-Bains.