Oil on canvas (33 cm / 42 cm) signed lower left and titled on the reverse "in Forest Road" and dated January 1955.
Robert FERNIER light reveals snowy landscapes of the Jura using a wide and vivid color palette.
"Our Jura, he said lends itself to simplification ... I think to apply the best approach from simple to complicated. When I started, I wanted to put on canvas what I saw : I have returned ".
After the Beaux Arts in Dijon and Paris, he worked successively with Dagnan-Bouveret, Courtois J Adler.
In 1924 he returned to Pontarlier, where he founded the Hall of Annunciation with Bouroult, Charigny and Roz.
Specialist Gustave Courbet, he founded the Museum. of Ornans