AUDIBERT Louis (1881–1983)


“Fisherman in the Old Port of Marseille”


Oil on cardboard,
Signed lower right,
Cartouche with the artist’s name on the frame,


In this composition, the Marseille painter Louis Audibert depicts fishermen in the Old Port of Marseille, likely returning from a fishing trip and cleaning their nets. 
The artist creates a composition with contrasts and a harmony of colors in a Fauvist style, influenced by his friend, the painter Louis Mathieu Verdilhan.
The painter, likely for reasons of economy, used an old painted panel to create this work.


A student of Alphonse Moutte at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille starting in 1898, Louis Audibert traveled to Paris for the 1900 World’s Fair and discovered the work of the Impressionists and Cézanne. After completing his military service in Toulon in 1906, he returned to live in Paris before settling permanently in Marseille.
From that point on, he exhibited still lifes and views of Marseille and its surroundings at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne.
He also frequented exhibitions by Marseille artists and the city’s galleries.
He founded the Académie d’Allauch with his painter friends: Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, Alfred Lombard, and Abbé Cabasson.
After World War I, he held his first solo exhibition at the Hôtel du Louvre et la Paix on the Cannebière. He also created decorative ensembles in Marseille for the opera house and the annex of the courthouse, as well as for the Pavillon de Provence at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris.
In 1948, he founded and presided over the Union des arts plastiques, which facilitated the exchange of works between local and national artists. He also became an illustrator and the author of an album of drawings on Marseille.
In 1975, a major exhibition titled "Audibert and His Friends" was held at the Palais Longchamp.


Louis Audibert became Winston Churchill’s teacher and befriended numerous artists such as Albert Marquet, Moise Kisling, and Marcel Leprin...
His works are now housed in museums in Marseille and Cassis, among other places.

Dimensions: 39 x 55 cm unframed and 56.5 x 72.5 cm with its modern wooden frame.

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