Maria Bertrán

"Fruit Seller" Contemporary Impressionist Figure Oil Painting

2018

"Maya's Robe" is a colorful figurative oil painted from life with rich golds, whites, and highlights. This Contemporary Impressionist painting captures a sensitive, thoughtful mood a...

"Lawn Chairs, Porch Light Communion" is from Sandra Jones Campbell's recent collection, "Please Be Seated," a series that displays her unique vision of the ...

"The Golden Hour" is am epic painting from Sandra Jones Campbell's recent Summer collection, a series that displays her unique vision of the world and is informed by her current soc...

"Summer Shade At Moon Lake"" is from Sandra Jones Campbell's recent Summer collection, a series that displays her unique vision of the world and is informed...

Artist/ School: European School, circa 1920's-1930's period, indistinctly signed lower left corner. Title: Portrait of a young Gentleman, with a beard. The work is largely Fauvist i...

French Post-Impressionist painter Georges d’Espagnat captures a charming moment between a mother and her child in this vibrant oil on canvas. Rendered with a studied use of complementary colors and bold brushstrokes, the painting showcases the artist's unique Post-Impressionist style. Remembered as one of the most individualistic artists of the 20th century, his distinctive canvases bring together the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the bold color palette favored by the Fauves. Together, they achieve a vibrant spontaneity that lends itself well to the carefree subjects of the present work. Masterfully composed, La lecture au jardin moves beyond the Impressionist instinct to capture a fleeting moment on canvas. Rather, d'Espagnat succeeds in creating a deep feeling of harmony in the work. Warm colors are perfectly balanced with cool tones, while vertical and horizontal lines are softened by the curves of the foliage and his subjects' figures. Through his simplification of forms and intentional use of color and line, he creates a scene that is carefully designed and thoroughly modern. A similar view of a mother and her child by d'Espagnat is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). The Post-Impressionist painter was an individualist since his youth, choosing to forgo traditional schooling in order to independently study the Old Masters in the Louvre. He soon became involved with the most prominent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the age, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac, who themselves existed outside the traditional norms of French Academic training. In 1891, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, and again the following year at the Salon des Indépendants. By 1895, he held his first one-man show in Paris, and just three years later his success earned him a solo show at the prestigious Durand-Ruel Gallery. Between 1905 and 1910 he made several trips to visit Renoir on the Côte d’Azur. Their close friendship resulted in a group exhibition at Marcel Bernheim...

Contemporary Large-Scale Cubist Figurative Abstract Lavender Interior Scene Bursting with bright colors and whimsical energy, this contemporary figurative abstract painting by San ...

A visually interesting and expressive work done in thick impastic paint and expressive brushwork. Artist is internationally collected, especially in Japan! Cottavoz painted lively s...