Claude Dechezelle

Large mid century modern abstracted cityscape painting southern landscape

circa 1955

This luminous landscape is perfectly capturing the light of early spring. A boy is climbing over wooden farm gates, with a backdrop of rolling hills. The painting has a gloriously fr...

A wonderful and idyllic, mid 19th Century summery village scene, where a pretty young girl stands, knitting (perhaps she is secretly waiting for someone?), village women eat and work...

It is always wonderful to be able to do original research on a mysterious painting by a mysterious artist. Born in Paris in 1867, Marthe Alers-Abran died tragically young in the same...

A perfect painting for lovers of Japan and those of primitive/naive outside art. It is a work by an internatoanlly noted extraordinary artist with an extraordinary life. Maurice LOIRAND (1922-2008) is born into a working class family in Brittany, near the Atlantic coast coast in France. He starts working as a skilled labourer in the shipyards aged 15. Aged 20, when the Nazis start to occupy the country, he joins the Resistance movement, where he meets and befriends thinkers, painters and poets. He is thus introduced to an artistic and intellectual universe far removed from the world of his origins. Loirand finds himself drawn to art, and soon dedicates all his free time to learn how to paint. Completely self taught, he soon begins to exhibit his pictures alongside high level artists. He moves to Paris in the 1950s, and - although still working as a technician - paints all night. He finally becomes a full time artist in 1968. International travel and a multitude of exhibitions follow. He exhibits in Brazil, Argentina, and with Jean Tiroche Gallery in New York, among others. His work is now shown alongside works by Leger, Matisse and Picasso. The Collector's Guild New York Ltd commissions Maurice Loirand for several works of lithographic art. Loirand discovers Japan in the early 1970s, and decides to stay for 18 years. He marries Kazué SHIMOTORI, a Japanese poet...

A fresh and atmospheric painting depicting the vast River Seine seen from the cliffs near its estuary in coastal Normandy. It is incredibly modern for its time: if the definition of ...

A wonderful view of a river landscape with a rustic cottage and pollarded trees by Henri Sieurac. It isa rare, early and very fresh landscape by this Parisian artist which may well have been painted in the countryside around Barbizon, near the river Loing. Henry Sieurac had studied with his father, François Joseph Sieurac , and of Paul Delaroche...

Jean-Baptiste-Arthur CALAME (Geneva, 1843 - Geneva, 1919) Mediterranean shore, probably the Côte d'Azur Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard H. 24 cm; L. 30 cm Signed lower right Circa...

François-Edme RICOIS (Courtalain, 1795 - Mareil-Marly, 1881) View of Châteaudun Oil on canvas H. 65 cm; W. 98 cm Signed and dated lower center 1860 François-Edme Ricois although bor...

Pointillist Painting "The Road Beneath the Snow (Le Chemin Sous la Neige)" Eugène Bégarat (French, 1943) Oil on canvas 15 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches Saturated with winter's light glinting...

Circle of Xavier LEPRINCE (Paris 1799 - Nice 1826) Picnic in the forest Oil on canvas H. 36 cm; L. 26 cm This picnic scene places us around 1825/35, which makes it a rare representa...

Claude Aimé Charles QUINSAC (Bordeaux, 1811 – around 1879) The Procession of Rogations in Fronsac Oil on canvas with oval view H. 54.7 cm; L. 63.6 cm Signed below in the motif and da...

Jean-Baptiste-Arthur CALAME (Geneva, 1843 - Geneva, 1919) Mediterranean shore, probably the Amalfi coast Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard H. 24 cm; L. 33 cm Signed lower right Circ...