Francis Stillwell Dixon Art

Oil painting on panel representing a boat in the sea. Framed André Petroff naquit à Saint-Petersbourg en 1894, il étudia avec Bilibine et Roerich. Par la...

Michael Stephanon (b. 1937) A well executed oil on canvas painting of a clipper at full sail by the Scandinavian artist Michael Stephanon. Although there are very few recorded det...

Antique French riverscape/landscape in a beautiful ornate frame by French artist, Pierre Louis Cazaubon, signed in the lower right corner. This attractive post-impressionist oil on ...

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...

This delicate watercolor painting captures the serene beauty of springtime in Linda Clerget's garden. In the center of the composition sits Isis, her beloved cat, surrounded by vibra...

20th Century French School; Signed indistinctly, lower left, 'De Mini? and dated 1993. A Post-Impressionist style, Parisian cityscape show...

Signed lower left, 'Denis Paul Noyer' (French, b. 1940) and created circa 1975. An exceptionally finely-detailed, silver point and colored pencil drawing showing a view of a Parisia...

Signed lower right, 'Tapie' for Viva Flower Tapie (American, 1897-1993) and painted circa 1925. Viva Flower Tapie was born in Sibley, Iowa and lived in Oakland, California where she exhibited with success at the Oakland Art...

One of my favorite French Fauvist painters, Henri Grenier (1882 - 1940), masterfully captures the energy of the turn-of-the-century Boulevard Saint-Germain in this exciting work on p...

Emilio Longoni (Barlassina 1859 - Milan 1932), Alpine Lake (1910) Oil painting on canvas pasted on board 20 x 41 cm signed lower right in Emilian frame late 16th century.

Signed post impressionist landscape oil on canvas by French painter Henri Le Sidaner. This stunning piece depicts two fishing boats moored in a fishing village at sunset. The last l...

Le Fiacre au Cheval Blanc, Pont St. Michel – Paris ( 1945 ) Dimensions: 21 5/16 x 28 3/8 in (54.1 x 72 cm) Medium: Oil on board Signed and inscribed ‘Fr. Gall Pont St. Michel Paris’ (lower right) Painted in Paris in 1945 Provenance Private Collection rancois Gall – Gáll Ferenc was born in Kolozsvar Hungary (at the time)from where he moved to France. After having Aurel Popp for the first master, he studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts – Workshop Coromaldi in Rome before joining the Collegium Hungaricum (equivalent to Villa Medici), then travel to Europe through Scholarship to study obtained for his talents as a sculptor, ceramicist, designer, painter and portraitist already large, including Roman and Hungarian families, bystanders and onlookers, friends, musicians, singers, street scenes of markets and caravans circuses street. The first exhibition of his work was organized by his hometown in 1932, the second to the Gallery Moderna in Rome, where he presents his many social issues. Arriving in Paris in 1936, he enrolled at the Fine Arts (workshops Charles Guerin and Andrew Devambez), meet other artists such as Christian Bérard, Othon Friesz, André Derain and Pablo Picasso, is befriended fishermen Seine, the booksellers who help to learn French through versifications Victor Hugo Gavillon the family with whom he exchanges breads and cakes against tables, their daughter Nadine – who has the reputation of the House Dalloyau around the world – is on one of them in a pram between Samaritan and Belle Jardinière. Happy in this free country dreamed, he walks Paris Montmartre to Montparnasse, through the docks and the Grands Boulevards, in search of new subjects. This is the animation of the Parisian life that he will present the summer of 1937 to Szalmasy Gallery in Budapest. Success is complete! Back to Paris in 1938, Ferenc Gall receives Honorable Mention for his painting “The Spanish refugees” acquired by the French State. 1939 Silver Medal at the Salon d’Asnieres. Early in 1939 he was recalled to Kolosvàr with his dying father, but he can not return to France, the declaration of war is imminent .. Liberated by the Allies in Wels in Austria, where it is then medical director and caregiver (a moving letter many Jews with typhus demonstrates), it is finally repatriated to Paris, returning to his attic of 16 Dauphine. He resumed his artistic activities, meeting on the banks of the Pont Neuf his bride a young Quercy, Eugenie Chassaing, which will give him three children, three future models: Lize-Marie (1947), Jean-François (1948), Elizabeth – Anne (1956 – year of the Budapest uprising) but will die in 1980 in a serious car accident, leaving the artist destroyed … 1947 – year of the bread crisis – his canvas “bread for the people”, highlight of French Artists “(4000 works and 800 exhibitors) the title of an article in France-Soir , he receives Gold Medal. Commented by Bourdan Pierre, Minister of Youth, Arts and Letters, is reproduced on the cover of all the newspapers and reviews of art. This year was also marked by his participation in a important collective exhibition gallery in Paris Debussy, along with Fernand Léger , Lhote and Lurgat presented by Jean Cassou . This is the Barreiro Gallery François Gall befriends Kisling who wishes to take a picture of this beautiful brunette that is Eugenie, languid on a sofa … but it does ask for her husband, who is now experiencing a growing reputation in Switzerland, England and Scandinavia. 1946, he joined his friend Marco G.de group Free Art “receives the Silver Medal at the French for his canvas” Exodus “that the” Pont Saint Michel fall “in his first solo exhibition in Paris Galerie Alexandre, then” Honfleur “Galerie Saint Philippe du Roule are acquired by State. 1949 good year again, his pride in being finally naturalized French, and get a solo exhibition at the gallery of the Impressionists, Durand-Ruel , where one of his paintings, “The port ‘of Honfleur “is acquired by State. This honor is due to the private secretary of the great gallery owner who discovered the young artist painting in all weathers on the banks of the Seine, Gall was organizing raffles with his sketches for the production of large canvases. Some of them are now found on sale at Christie’s, Sotheby’s. Marlborough Fine Art Gallery in London brings together thirty of his works that are very successful and is warmly welcomed by Dunoyer de Segonzac which follows immediately after exposure. The same gallery will present its 1951 “Landscapes of France” From the beginning of the 1950s traveling exhibitions and multiply throughout France and the world, including Belgium, the USA, where the artist is also slated to play the role of Manet cinema, but his participation in the other exhibitions “prevents” the French Week “in Sweden where he befriends Maurice Chevalier which he made sketches and portraits, Mexico, Israel. Then the ports and beaches to attract, he went there during the school holidays with his family he does ask, before returning home parents Eugenie Martel-en-Quercy and the landscape of the Causses around. Martel, where you can meet Gen Paul and his bicycle. In 1954, Gall family acquired the romantic house with workshop and yard flowered acacia, purchased from the widow of the painter J.Emile Zingg at 8 Villa Brune, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. In 1961, wanting to replace an older worker on the ladder while hanging paintings in the organization of the Salon des Independants, François Gall suffered a fall of several meters Grand Palais and remains paralyzed in a plaster shell for more than a year. Participating each year in Paris at the Salon of Painters witness to its time, the price Francis Smith he was awarded in 1963, the Galliera Museum . This enables him to make a study tour to Portugal, he comes back amazed and a rich amount of bright and colorful paintings, exhibited at the Casa Portugal to Paris. Artist increasingly recognized, François Gall became laureate of the Institut de France and his works are subject, in the late 1960s, prestigious exhibitions in France and abroad. They took him to Italy, Rome, Florence, Venice, Germany, Switzerland, where he has a permanent exhibition in Bern and Neuchâtel Bevaix and Corsica, Austria, Spain, Russia, Canada at the Dominion Gallery Max Stern, which discovered the first fake paintings of the artist from Eastern Europe, including Romania. Recognized portraitist, he worked among other portraits, that of his muse Edith Piaf, Marielle Goetschel, France Gall...