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Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
56.5 x 66 x 2.2 cm
- Creator:Sylvain Vigny (1903 - 1970, Austrian)
- Dimensions:Height: 18.12 in (46 cm)Width: 21.66 in (55 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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- Condition:Original frame.
- Gallery Location:Genève, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2018210749422
Sylvain Vigny is a French painter born in Vienna (Austria) on April 8, 1903. He moved to Nice in 1934. He died in Nice on February 4, 1970. Self-taught artist, coming from Austria like Willy Eisenschitz and Elfy Haindl-Lapoirie (de), "he arrived in France in 1929 and, after having known an adventurous life in Vienna and Paris, he discovered Nice in 1934 and settle there”. The name of Sylvain Vigny remains attached to that of Jean Moulin in that, when the latter opened the Galerie d'art Romanin in Nice, the artist was, with the brothers Pierre and Jacques Prévert, Nikos Papatakis, Django Reinhardt and the Nice painter Jean Cassarini, among those we meet regularly. It was from 1955 that he became a truly recognized figure in Nice art, as would his friends Ben (Benjamin Vautier), Claude Morini and Bernard Damiano.
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