Enamel Paintings

Antoine Blanchard (France 1910 - 1988 ) Title: "Place de la Madeleine" (depuis de la Rue Royale) Signature: "Antoine Blanchard" lower right corner Period: mid 1960's Artwork: 90x60cm (36 x 24 IN.) Offered unframed Condition: Overall Excellent. No chips, flaking or missing material Great investment with hammer prices going up year after year. Rare find! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Blanchard received his initial artistic training at the Beaux-Arts in Rennes, Brittany. He then moved to Paris in 1932 where he joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Prix de Rome. Like Édouard Cortès (1882–1969) and Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941), Antoine Blanchard essentially painted Paris and the Parisians in bygone days, often from vintage postcards. The artist began painting his Paris street scenes in the late 1950s, and like Cortès, often painted the same Paris landmark many times, in different weather conditions or various seasons. The most recurrent topics were views of the capital city in cloudy or rainy days, showing streets busy with pedestrians in a rush to go home, and bright storefronts reflecting on wet streets. Many of the French Quarter art...

Oil and Enamel on Panel by American Artist Jacques de Beaufort Unique 3-D elements and vivid colors. Provenance: Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago ...

A French Limoges enamel portrait plaque depicting Catherine de Medici, 19th century contained in an ebonized frame monogrammed and dated to the r...

Large expressionist landscape painting in enamel on board depicting grasses or flowers against a seaside sunset, circa 1980s-1990s. Well matched with a wide, white, wooden frame. Mea...

Arrigo Ghedini (1905-1997) was born to a wealthy northern Italian family and initially trained in economics, though soon turned to painting and stage design. He married a fellow arti...