Ferdinand du Puigaudeau

Les Bulles de Savon

1896

Elegant figures in a spring garden with mother and child. Colors are pure and fresh. Has everything that one would want in a D'espagnat . A top 2 % work by this artist .. Signed ...

Accompanied by certificate no. 2772163 from the artist's archives.

Signed lower right: Geo

Signed with monogram lower left * The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains more paintings (nine) by Georges D’Espagnat than any other nineteenth- or ...

Early 20th Century Oil Painting by Victor Gilbert. Canvas dimensions 14.75 x 18 inches. Framed dimensions 22 x 25 inches. Born Paris, France 1847; Died 1933 Victor Gilbert's natural ability as an artist was recognized early, but his family lacked the financial resources to send the young man to the École des Beaux-Arts. Rather than enrolling in the École, Gilbert was apprenticed to Eugene Adam as an artisan painter and decorator. His only formal education was evening classes with Pierre Levasseur at the École de la ville de Paris. Perhaps it was his early immersion into la vie quotidienne that formed the basis for his later choices of subject matter for his art, that of the markets and streets of Paris. Despite his lack of formal training, Gilbert's admissions to the Paris Salons of 1873 and 1874 were very well received by audiences and critics alike; at this time he was supported by the dealer Paul Martin, who was an important proponent of the Impressionist movement. Gilbert emerged in the early 1880s as the primary Realist painter to record the French marketplace...

Provenance Private collection, New Jersey; Thomas Colville Fine Art, Guilford, Connecticut; Private collection, Connecticut, until present John Koch’s portraits of New York high soc...

Oil on panel Panel size: 21.5 x 17.25 inches Signed??

Edmund Adler (Rode) "Blowing Bubbles" Oil on Canvas 22 x 27 inches 32 x 37 inches framed Signed Lower Right Edmund Adler (Austrian) 1876-1965 Kno...