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Claude Gaveau
French Modernist Fauvist Oil Painting Claude Gaveau School of Paris

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CLAUDE GAVEAU (1906 - 1970) A beautiful and large signed oil on canvas by the important french painter Claude Gaveau. The work is signed upper right and unlined and unrestored on its original canvas. Title: “Composition” Signature: Signed upper right Medium: Oil on original canvas Provenance: Private french collection Size: c. 24 x 29 inches unframed Claude Gaveau (1906 - 1970) is a French painter born in Neuilly-sur-Marne in 1940. The painter was born near Paris and studied there as well as in Belgium. He comes from a family of artists, his grandfather was the creator of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. He is passionate since very young about painting and entered the Ecole des Arts Appliqués in Paris in 1955 where he studied mural art for five years, stained glass, tapestry, mosaic and fresco. In 1960, he studied at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, becoming equally accomplished in oil painting, watercolor, drawing and lithography, pastel and gouache. Influenced by great Post Impressionist painters such as Paul Cézanne, George Braque and Raoul Dufy, Gaveau gets inspired as well by music and lyricism. His talent was quickly recognized, in 1963 he won his first prize and obtained a scholarship from the Academy of Antwerp, Belgium which allowed him to study Flemish painting in Brussels. In 1965, with only 25 years, he made his first solo exhibition at the Angle Aigu Gallery in Paris. His career took a real turn in 1968 when he was nominated for the "la Critique Parrainé" Award by the Saint Placide Gallery in Paris. A recurrent traveler, the landscapes he observes all around the world allow him to broaden his artistic palette. Other exhibitions of his work followed during the 1960’s and 1970’s in France with the Galerie Vauban in Dijon in 1967, 1968 and 1970; with the Galerie Saint Placide in Paris in 1968; with the Galerie Marc Hudier in Belfort in 1970; and three one-man shows with the Galerie La Belle Gabrielle in Paris in 1972, 1975 and 1978. In 1980 Claude Gaveau had his first one-man exhibition with Wally Findlay Galleries International took place in New York. Described by critic André Weber as “symphonic". Claude Gaveau’s landscapes, seascapes, nudes, couples, still lifes and florals have harmonies of color, structure, and emotion which draw the viewer into the artist’s interior vision. Seeming to withdraw from reality, yet not abstract, his unique style has an element of mystery, suggesting rather than defining, with diffused indications of form often set against blocks of intense color. “ SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1965-Galerie de l'Angle Aigu, Brussels 1967-Galerie Vauban, Dijon 1968-Galerie St. Placide, Paris 1968-Galerie Vauban, Dijon 1970-Galerie Marc Hudier, Belfort 1971-Galerie Vauban, Dijon 1972-1975 - Galerie La Belle Gabrielle, Paris 1978-Galerie La Belle Gabrielle, Paris 1980-1981 - Wally Findlay Gallery, New York 1982-Wally Findlay Gallery, Chicago 1983-Wally Findlay Gallery, Beverly Hills 1984-Wally Findlay Gallery, Chicago and Palm Beach 1985-1997 - Wally Findlay Gallery, New York SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS Salon de la Marine - Victor Choquet Prize Salon des Indépendants Salon d'Automne Salon Confrontation a Dijon Salon de Chateauneuf Salon des Artistes Français - Médaille d'Argent Salon Comparaisons Salon des Peintres Témoins de Leur Temps Salon de Monaco - First Prize of the Government Princier Salon d'Automne d'Aix en Provence - First Prize Salon des Yvelines a l'Orangerie de Versailles. Claude Gaveau oil paintings have been sold exclusively by Wally Findlay Galleries since 1980 Gaveau's work is internationally recognized for his nudes and his still life compositions. His bright, Fauvist, palette of colors, gives the impression of being covered with silk, this in turn gives a certain subtlety to his work. His art is often described as "symphonic" since the elements he uses in each one of his compositions seem perfectly balanced, not real without being abstract, this gives a mysterious and singular aspect to his pieces, which makes them easily identifiable. He has shown with Alain Bonnefoit, Yves Brayer, Pierre Marie Brisson, Andre Brasilier, Rene Genis, Andre Verdet. Gaveau has had many solo exhibitions around the world at prestigious galleries in Paris and the United States including the Wally Findlay Galleries in Chicago, New York and Palm Beach. A highly collected painter and a very large and impressive example.
  • Creator:
    Claude Gaveau (1940, French)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 29 in (73.66 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
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  • Condition:
    good. minor mear. please see photos.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3829802322

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