Framed and signed oil on canvas by the French artist Charles Betremieux (1919 - 1997) who was a creative artist. The painting shows an old olive tree in a summer landscape . The painting is typical of Betremieus''s style with a fresh green palette and generous strokes. The painting is signed and mounted in a super painted frame and slip. Betremieux was born in 1919 and was predominantly inspired by the 1930s. He studied at the Ecole Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes with Raymond Debieve where their work was quickly noticed and rewarded: The period of the 1930s is characterised by the clashing of many political ideologies, including Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism. Surrealism continued to dominate in Europe, and had influence internationally. Artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera in Mexico, worked to integrate the ideas posed by Surrealism into their radical political ideologies, developing a new kind of m...