Louis Hayet

Evening in Paris - 20th Century Oil, Figures in Cityscape at Night - Louis Hayet

1932

Signed and dated figure in landscape oil on board by French impressionist painter Charles Lacoste. A truly stunning piece with depicts a nighttime view of a Parisian street with a single woman dressed in a black coat and hat standing in the centre of of dark square which is being dimly lit by the street lights overhead. The outline of trees and the city's buildings can be seen in the distance. Signature: Signed and dated 1904 lower right. Dimensions: Framed: 24.5"x31" Unframed: 18.5"x25" Provenance: Wildenstein & Co - New York "Charles Lacoste: A Forgotten Nabi" 2002 This work is accompanied by the catalogue published to accompany the exhibition “Charles Lacoste: A Forgotten Nabi” held at Wildenstein in New York from January 30 to March 2, 2002 The son of a Bordeaux accountant and a creole mother, he met in high school the future poet Francis Jammes and Gabriel Frizeau the legendary art collector. He taught himself to paint and from 1894 to 1897 he made several important contacts: André Gide, Arthur Fontaine...

Signed impressionist gouache on paper figures in landscape circa 1910 by French painter Eugene Galien-Laloue. The piece depicts a street scene at the Quai de la Tournelle...

A beautiful mid 20th century French post-impressionist oil on panel depicting a busy summer evening in Paris. Lovely quality atmospheric work which is indistinctly signed lower rig...

Presenting an magnificent just discovered original oil painting by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010.) "Paris Evening", is an original oil on panel, signed, dated 2003 with an image dimension of 8.25 x 10.25 inches, currently unframed. A biography on the career of Robert McIntosh included below, please contact the gallery for additional information. Robert McIntosh (1916-2010) Robert McIntosh was borth on March 11, 1916 near San Francisco, in Vallejo, California, the second son of Harry and Jesusita Coronado McIntosh. He found his lifelong passion for painting by the time he was ten years old and never swayed from his calling. The family moved to Stockton when Robert was 12. Their home was just six blocks from the newly opened Haggin Museum, filled with a treasure trove of European and American paintings. He became particularly enamored with the fine examples of 19th century French pastoral landscapes. As teens, Robert and his brother Harrison befriended local painter Arthur Haddock who taught them the craft of art and brought them along on outdoor painting trips. Robert also became skilled at drawing portraits that captured the subject's personality. Soon, the sheer joy of expressing himself this way became a consuming interest. When not sketching, McIntosh would wander the stacks of books at the public library, discovering and studying the Masters - in particular, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Whistler. At a Gauguin exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, Robert discovered a "whole new world of color" and the importance of designing the space in the eternal rectangle. "I envision a frame around everything I see, "he admitted. "The artists' challenge is to put something meaningful, interesting or beautiful in that space." In 1934 McIntosh won a competition for a scholarship to the Art Center School of Design, the first award they ever bestowed. The entire family moved to Los Angeles and a new vista...