Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Note: From 1913 to 1933, Marcel Mouillot exhibited at the Salon des indépendants in Paris, the Salon d'Automne, of which he was a member, the Salon des Tuileries and the Société nationale des beaux-arts. During this period, he moved to Brittany and was seriously wounded in the First World War. He settled for a time in Saint-Tropez, then returned to Paris with the help of art dealer Berthe Weill.
In 1930, he left for the Indian Ocean, notably Reunion Island, where he painted the Piton de la Fournaise, and decorated the Reunion pavilion for the 1937 International Exhibition. His work was exhibited in several Parisian galleries (Galerie de Berri, Zach...) as well as in Prague and New York (Brummer Gallery).
He opted for a composition and palette of great simplicity, emphasizing the different volumes and their relationships, in a style close to that of the early Cubists.