Louis Bonamicci

French Riviera painter of origin, Louis Jean Alfred Bonamici was born in Livorno, Italy, on January 13, 1878, and died in France on March 12, 1966. He is the son of Jean Bonamici and Égerie Bertacchi. He intended very early to paint. His panels or his oils on canvas represent seascapes, scenes of ports, fishing, creeks but also bouquets of flowers, rural landscapes, more rarely village scenes, all in a Provence bathed in sunshine, as in bear witness to his tartan paintings in Martigues. Louis Bonamici still uses the technique of painting with a knife like his contemporary Louis Pastour and sometimes that of watercolor. Certain artistic critics thus see in him a distant pupil of Adolphe Monticelli.