François Maurice ROGANEAU
 (Bordeaux, 1883 – Aix-en-Provence, 1973)

 Saint Helena
 Watercolor with gouache highlights
 Signed and dated “1945” lower right
 45 x 23 cm

 He was a student of Paul QUINSAC and Gaston LEROUX at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, where he was director from 1929 to 1958, then of GERÔME and FERRIER at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He participated in Paris, in the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was a member outside the competition; he received an honorable mention in 1906. He received the Prix de Rome in 1906. He was the director of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux from 1929 to 1958, then of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and of the Académie de France in Rome (Villa Medici) where he met William LAPARRA. In 1932, he was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

 He created the ceiling decoration of the Bordeaux theatre, the wine frescoes at the Bordeaux Labour Exchange in collaboration with C de BUZON, CAVERNE and BEGAUD, the decorations of the church of Lit et Mixe in the Landes (1920), the stained glass windows of the Lujan basilica in Argentina and the ceilings of the Bogota Congress Center. His landscapes of the Basque Pyrenees are mentioned as well as Sainte Marie L'Egyptienne – Les Bateliers – La Toilette. He also provided stained glass designs to the master glassmaker Gustave Pierre DAGRANT.

 His work is prolific and academic. He was insensitive to the avant-garde trends of his century.

 Museums : Bordeaux (Mus. des Beaux-Arts): Portrait of a woman, charcoal and chalk – Libourne (Mus. des Beaux-Arts): Nude, oil on canvas – Paris (Ec. Nat. des Beaux-Arts): The family, oil on canvas – L'Isle-Adam: The Cyclops, oil on canvas – Bordeaux (Mus. d'Aquitaine): The Landes forest, oil on canvas…