Adriano Ribeiro

Blue Bridge Boy, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2023

Martini shows circles and transparent trapezoids that define space. A limited color palette is used, and the artist works in a spontaneous manner. He is seeking to use these elemen...

Spro Gyro 2 explores the placment of circles against a beige background. The painting has a limited color palette, which shows the interplay of circular shapes and their shadows. :...

Kick references New York City at night showing the interplay of colors and shapes in a lively manner. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of auth...

Circle Walk shows the interplay between two rows of geometric shapes against a bright green background. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of au...

A superb large signed oil on canvas by Claude Venard depicting a view of Paris. The work is signed lower right and was originally sold by Galerie Romanet in Paris. The work is in exc...

"Florentine Night" is a vibrant abstract oil painting by Edward (Eduardo) Arcenio Chavez (1917-1995), created circa 1951. Signed and titled by the artist on the back of the canvas, t...

Claude Vénard was born in Paris in 1913 to an established, middle-class family from Bourgogne. Although he was a businessman, his father accepted and supported his devotion to the arts. The blossoming artist was accepted at the prestigious École des Beaux-arts but quickly rejected the formality of traditional academic art training. Instead, Vénard began attending night courses at the École de Arts Appliqués at age seventeen to supplement his independent education. After six years of dedicated study the painter was forced, due to economic difficulties, to withdraw from the school and seek employment. Vénard became a restoration specialist at the Louvre to support himself in 1936. The artist considered his experiences conserving Old Master paintings to be invaluable to the development of his style and technique. In the same year that he started working at the Louvre, Vénard participated in a group show at Galerie Billet-Worms. Respected art critic Waldemar George hailed the exhibition as an immense success, proclaiming, “Let’s be young again! Painting is not dead. Its course has not stopped. Forces Nouvelles is born.” The Forces Nouvelles movement, which included artists like André Marchand...

Hand signed lower right. Oil and mixed media on cardboard. Authenticity by the Parisian Gallery Baudoin Lebon. Published in the Catalogue of Michaux's Personal Exhibition "40 Opere d...