Lucien Génin Art

Eleanor Park Custis painted scenes as varied as the artist's travels: from her hometown of Washington, D.C., to the coastal towns of New England; from the prosperous fishing villages of Brittany, to Venice and the mountain villages and lakes of northern Italy. While Custis's subjects are diverse, her style is consistent and distinctive throughout this body of work. Her use of flat areas of color delineated by dark contours is reminiscent of the aesthetics of woodblock printing. Like many artists of the day, she was profoundly influenced by Japanese woodblock prints, and her adaptation of the aesthetic by 1924 led to her most productive artistic period. Eleanor Custis hailed from a socially prominent Washington, D.C., family. She was distantly related to Martha Custis Washington, America's first First Lady. Custis began three years of formal art training in the autumn of 1915 at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, and was guided and inspired by Impressionist artist Edmund C. Tarbell, one of the Ten American Painters, who became the Corcoran School's principal in 1918. Custis exhibited widely in many of the Washington art societies and clubs for much of her career. She was also a frequent exhibitor at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City; her last one-woman show there was in April 1945. Custis's mature style emerged in scenes of the streets, wharves, and drydocks of seacoast villages from Maine to Massachusetts, which she visited during the summers of 1924 and 1925. She was working in Gloucester, Massachusetts in August 1924, and painted several gouaches of the town's wharves and winding streets, including In Gloucester Harbor and At the Drydock, Gloucester. During her stay, Custis may have met Jane Peterson or at least must have seen her work, the best of which was executed in Gloucester during the preceding ten years. The similarity between their styles is unmistakable, but, while it may be tempting to suggest that Custis was influenced by Peterson during her summer in Gloucester, the connection between their work is probably more a case of shared aesthetics and common European influences. Custis expanded her subject repertoire with three trips to Europe between 1926 and 1929, and was inspired by the Old World charm of Holland, northern France, Switzerland, and Italy, leading to such works as New Kirk, Delft, Holland, Market Day in Quimper, At the Foot of the Matterhorn, and The Town Square, Varenna. A Mediterranean cruise in 1934 introduced her to the Near East, and the bustling, colorful streets and bazaars of Cairo, captured in works like A Street in Cairo, Egypt and A Moroccan Jug...

Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 26.5 x 20 inches provenance: the artists estate, France condition: very good and ...

Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Amsterdam - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 73x92 cm. Frameless. Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter, nephew o...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - The ship Oil on canvas cardboard. Oil measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter. He...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Cadaques - Oil on canvas. Work measurements 61x50 cm. Frame size 66x55 cm. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter. ...

Rosie Phipps Green Fields Original Landscape Painting Water Colour Paint, Gouache and Pastel on Paper Image Size: H 10cm x W 25cm Mounted Size: H 18.5cm x W 34.5cm Framed Size: H 23c...

Brightly colored Fauvist coastal landscape of a vivid purple cypress tree at the edge of the water, under a bright yellow sky and orange sun by Karen Druker (American, 1945). Signed ...

Landscape with Ciociaria shepherd, the bridge over the Tiber river and the ancient ruins by Paul Pascal (1839-1905).   Around 1880. Gouache on paper. Dimensions with frame: cm 69 x...

Brightly colored landscape of a cabin in the woods by Karen Druker (American, 1945). Signed "Druker" in the lower right corner. Presented in a cream mat. No frame. Image size: 30"H x...

signed lower right. size includes frame. The French artist Claude Hemeret was born on May 23, 1929. After classical studies at the lycée du Parc Imperial in Nice, he started at the l...

Vicenç Ferrer Torradellas (1927) - Ibiza Market - Oil on canvas Oil measures 46x55 cm. Frameless. Reus 1927. He studied at the School of Work. He dedicated himself to easel painting...

This delightful turn of the century (early 20th century) oil on canvas painting represents an Italian landscape with one of the most famous squares in the world: Piazza San Marco in ...