MARIN-MARIE (Marin de Saint-Front 1901-1987) "Aviso ou contre-torpilleur sous le feu", gouache watercolour signed lower right, 33 X 42 cm (view), under glass frame. This naval battle scene may evoke the battle of Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July 1940, which Marin-Marie witnessed on board the battleship Strasbourg and which was later the subject of several paintings by the artist, who was commissioned to do so by the French government.