Théophile Henri DÉCANIS

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Théophile Henri Décanis was a French painter born in 1847 in Marseille where he died on February 10, 1917. Attached to the artistic movement of the Marseilles School, Théophile Henri Décanis was a student and friend of Jean-Baptiste Olive. For twenty years he painted the landscapes of Provence. In 1900, he participated in the decoration of the large room of the restaurant Le Train bleu at the Gare de Lyon in Paris for which he painted views of Cannes and Menton, paintings that have not yet been located and which were replaced in 1905 by Albert Maignan's painting, Le Théâtre d'Orange