André Cottavoz

Little Boy with Blond Hair

1955

This rare subject of playing cards, books and objects spread out on a table was obviously a challenge and fun subject for the artist to tackle. He uses highly impastic paint thickly...

Painted in 1961 in the south of France, Le Paysage's jewel tones and energetic, thick brushwork lure you into not a literal landscape of paint and asks you to discern it's true content. It has charm, expressiveness, abstracted content and idiosyncratic nature! A delight to hang in a smaller intimate spot. The framing is carefully done with silvered 24 karat leafing around the float area of the frame and then a wide panel to allow the viewer to focus in on the composition itself and the texture of the paint. Andre Cottavoz is very well noted artist of the French and Paris school of art...

This fun and imaginative work by Andre Cottavoz is a great work for an intimate spot in a room. He is an artist who is collected for his thick and expressive paint quality. The pas...

This major and stunningly expressive work of the French Countryside is a work Andre Cottavoz put a lot into! It is extraordinarily thick paint that is a...

This expressive Head of a Woman which Cottavoz called "Portrait Jaune" - is very strongly in the tradition of both Picasso and some of the British artists like Frank Auerbach. It ha...

This is a fun and rich work with incredible paint application, of a busy summer's day at the Beach. Andre Cottavoz is collected and loved for his expressive and incredibly think pai...

Giovanni Müller (Swiss, * 25.4.1890 Krinau, † 11.1.1970 Zürich) Still Life of Fruit in a Bowl • C. 1930 • Oil on canvas, ca. 39 x 51 cm • Frame, ca. ...

Dmitry Alexandrovich Kustanovich (Belarusian, 29.3.1970) Lively Urbane Landscape on a rainy day in Minsk , Belarus • Oils on canvas, mounted on to fiberboard, ca. 27 x 35 cm • Fram...

Ernst Link (Swiss, ∗ 14th of October, 1874 in Windisch, † 29th of June, 1935 in Bern) Stöckli with Clothesline • Oil painting on canvas approx. 25.5 x 26.5 cm • Pine frame approx. 34.5 x 35.5 cm (obvious signs of age) • Signed lower right A most pleasant depiction of a typical ‘Stöckli’ in bright sunshine with the a few shirts on the washing line, somewhere in the Canton of Berne in Switzerland. Such small cottages would sit next to the large farmhouses and upon retirement the old couple would move into it, to make room for the next generation to take up residence in the main building and run the farm. The Painting is in pleasingly good and clean condition, with no damage or restoration Ernst Linck was an important representative of the "Berner Schule" (Bernese school) led by the famous Ferdinand Hodler, which also included Traugott Senn, Emil Cardinaux, Eduard Boss...

Gaétan Montagney (French, 20th Century) Route de campagne bordée d'arbres • Oil on canvas on panel ca. 20 x 26 cm • Frame ca. 28 x 33 cm • Signed lower right Delightful little lan...

A. J. Bennett (South African, fl. Early 20th century) Light and Shade • Oil on canvas artist board ca. 42.5 x 29.5 cm • Later frame ca. 53.5 x 41 cm Worldwide shipping is complime...

Literature: Bazetoux, Henri Lebasque Catalogue Raisonne (Neuilly, 2008), vol. 1, p. 223 (no. 820) (illus)