Roger Chastel was a French painter and engraver born in Paris in 1897 and died in 1981.
 He rarely attended the School of Fine Arts and was mainly a student of the Académie Ranson and of Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian.
 From 1925, he devoted himself to painting and exhibited in the various Paris salons from 1926, the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Surindépendants and the Salon des Tuileries.
 At this time, his works reveal a strong Cubist influence. In the 1930s, he returned to neo-realist figuration. He became friends with the great collector Paul Guillaume. In 1932, he received the Grand Prix National de la Peinture. In the 1950s, he gradually distanced himself from the appearance of reality, seeking above all the balance of colored planes. He then painted landscapes, the scent and emotion of which he retained much more than the appearance. Chastel's project was never purely abstract; the "Proustian" memory of the theme that aroused his attention was important to him, and he kept it alive through the highly intellectualized alchemy of his formal metaphors.
 The work I am offering you belongs to this period.
 A professor at the School of Fine Arts until 1968, he received the National Arts Prize in 1961 and was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts in 1967.
 Many museums have his works, such as the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Baltimore Museum in the United States, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, etc.