Canu Yvonne

Collioure. Oil on canvas 50, 5 x 61 cm

Le port de la Chaume. Oil on canvas, 33x41 cm

Lielupe. 1980. Cardboard, oil. 51x66 cm

Yvonne Canu French, 1921 - 2008 Collioure Oil on canvas 13 ¼ x 16 inches (33 x 40.6 cm) Framed: 20 ½ x 23 ½ inches (52 x 60 cm) Signed lower right: Y Canu Provenance: Private Collection, US Titled and with inventory number 1052 on verso Yvonne Canu was influenced by the Pointillists school and very strongly so by Georges Seurat and by Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte, in particular. She was actually born in Moracco but studied at the Ecoles des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, forced to interupt them due to the outbreak of WWII. She later spent time in Montmarte and met artists including Francois Gall and Foujita, who introduced her to not only drawing but also plein-air landscpae painting and basic Impressionist trends. It was not until 1955 when she had met Seurat did she gravitate toward Neo-Impressionism and Pointillism. The artist’s round brushstrokes of juxtaposed pure colors allowed the viewer to observe this fusing of these colors directly. She adopted the Pointillist technique and applied it to most of her work, primarily of seascapes and harbour scenes. She exhibited extensively after the War and for the rest of her life. Our painting, Collioure, is in Southern France at a known area in the Pyrenees-Orientales. It’s a charming and colorful depiction of one primary sailboat with its passengers aboard and other boats and hillsides behind it. The right side of the composition shows the Shoreline with small boats parked...

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