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Paul Collomb
Paul Collomb, Paris, Eiffel Tower, Invalides, The Beautiful View, Oil on Canvas

1960s

$1,200
£919.65
€1,056.98
CA$1,685.46
A$1,886.34
CHF 987.43
MX$22,915.61
NOK 12,537.87
SEK 11,831.62
DKK 7,886.94

About the Item

Oil on canvas by Paul Collomb (1921-2010), France, 1960s. The beautiful view. Measurements : with frame: 54.5x41.2 cm - 21.5x16.2 inches, without frame: 46x33 cm - 18.1x13 inches, format 8P. Signed "p.collomb" and titled on the back (see photos). In its golden frame with gold leaf. Paul Collomb favours us with a moving view of Paris. Surely summer in the late afternoon as seem to indicate the vegetation, the pink clouds of a declining sun and the warm tones of the foreground. The view is taken from Boulevard Henri IV on the Sully bridge. In the foreground, the Marie Bridge. Then, the Louis-Philippe bridge and the Arcole bridge. In the distance, the Pont Neuf. On the right is the right bank of the Seine where we distinguish the City Hall. On the left, the beginning of Saint-Louis Island. Then clearly appear the dome of the Invalides and the Eiffel Tower which proudly dominate this poetic panorama. About Paul Collomb : Paul Collomb was born October 8, 1921 in Ain Oyonnax. He studies drawing in Paris while taking classes at the School of Applied Arts. After the Liberation, he enters the Beaux-Arts in Paris, Atelier Souverbie, works and lives with his wife at "La Ruche" where he found a studio. He travels to Tunisia. At the same time, he works in the studio and in 1948 at the Salon of the under Thirty years old, where he exposes the Woman with the lamp. His painting, which had hitherto been marked by the fascination exercised over him by Braque and Picasso grows away because Paul Collomb realizes the danger of these too strong influences and, to maintain his independence, undertakes to return to a direct study of nature, that is, to the work on the subject. In 1950, he presents a Nude at the Salon of the Young Painting and Nudes at the Salon des Independants. He competes for the Prix de Rome and gets the First Second Grand Prix. In 1951, he continued his collaboration at the Salon of the Young Painting, he is part of the Committee, won the Prix Fénéon, Casa Velasquez Prize. He then stays in Toledo, Salamanca and, in June, exhibits a set of works in Madrid. He returns to France for the Salon d'Automne where he exhibits a Landscape of Toledo. In 1953, he is invited by the Painters Witnesses of their Time (Sunday). His passion for Spain is so strong that he goes back to work there during the summer and leaves for Amsterdam in October, where for a year he is a boarder at the Institut Français at Maison Descartes. In June, the Utrecht Museum organizes an exhibition of 50 of his works on Holland and Spain. In 1955, he is invited to the Museum of Besançon as Laureate of the Parisian Criticism. He is named member of the Salon d'Automne (Rest in the Grass). In 1958, the Tasting under the trees (Salon of the young painting) is acquired by the City of Paris. In 1959, he exhibits a set of pastels and drawings at the Galerie Sagot-Le-Garrec, in Paris, in May while the International Gallery of Chicago presents him in March-April among the French Contemporary Masters. He is invited to Chartres and stays during the summer on the Normandy coast in Yport. He holds a very important exhibition in Chicago in October: 50 paintings, 20 pastels, 10 drawings. In July, he wins the Grand Prix of the City of Nîmes. In 1961, special exhibition: 30 paintings on two themes: dancers and trees, Galerie Lorenceau, in Paris; he is at Comparisons, at the Salon d'Automne, at the Dutch Institut. In 1962, the International Gallery organizes a special exhibition in Chicago: 40 paintings, 20 pastels and drawings. In 1964, he is invited back to the Painters Witnesses of their Time (Love). He returns to Paris and meet the philosopher Lucien Goldman with whom he had befriended during his stay at the French Institute of Amsterdam. He participates in the international group of Figurative Art in Japan. In February 1965, he exhibits at the Salon of the Painters Witnesses of their time, theme "Bread and wine". A painting, The holiday linch, is reproduced in color in the catalogue. On the same style of composition as The holiday lunch, he performs a large painting: The lunch of friends with portraits of George Besson, Jacqueline Bret-André, painters Bardone, Jacques Petit and his wife, his friend Dr. Maigne ( Museum of Besançon). In October, special exhibition in Paris, Gallery Sagot-le-Garrec "Watercolors and drawings" with a preface by George Besson. In 1966, he participates in Souillac and the Cahors Museum at the exhibition "Group of 20" organized by Juliette Darle; then to the Baux-de-Provence "Continuity of French Painting" from Renoir, Marquet, Bonnard till today. In May-June 1967, he appears in the exhibition at the castle of Saint-Ouen, organized by Juliette Darle, entitled "20 painters of today" with several paintings. From July to September, at the Museum of d'Annecy, a very important exhibition on 10 years of painting, George Besson writes the preface of the catalogue. In 1968, the Francis Smith Prize was awarded to him. The prize consisting of a month's stay in Portugal, he goes there with his wife and son by taking the Way of Saint Jacques de Compostela. He spends a few days in the north of Portugal, in the mountainous region of Minho; he makes many drawings during the pilgrimage of Sao Bento. That year, Micheline Sandrel comes to his apartment for a report for television. In April 1969, following the Francis Smith Prize, he made a special exhibition of a set of canvases, watercolors and drawings at Casa de Portugal in Paris. In October, he goes to Amsterdam for Rembrandt's anniversary exhibition. He participates in the traveling exhibition "Contemporary French Painting" in major cities of Canada; as well as in Tokyo "Contemporary French Art" and in Manchester. In March 1970, a special exhibition at the Galerie Mignon-Massart in Nantes entitled "Faces of Portugal", preface by George Besson. Special exhibition in Chicago (International Gallery), paintings, watercolors, pastels. In October, the International Gallery of Chicago organizes a special exhibition in Louisville (USA). On the radio, Roger Bouillot devotes two programs to him in his column: "Discophile Contemporaries". In August 1971, he participates in the group exhibition in Hong Kong "French Art" organized by the Cultural Relations of Foreign Trade. In February 1972: special exhibition at the Galerie Marcel Guiotwith, preface to the catalogue by Jean Dalevèze, the main themes are characters in the trees, fruit branches on the sky, snow landscapes. In November, he travels to Vevey, Switzerland, for the opening of his special exhibition (Galerie Alpha). In 1973, his friend, the Polish painter K. Ostrowski, organizes a special exhibition of lithographs at B.W.A. of Gdnynia (Poland). In May, he makesa trip to Grenoble, for his particular exhibition, Au Temps Retrouvé, for which Bergotte writes the preface. The Marcel Guiot gallery organizes a special exhibition in Caracas (Venezuela), Galerie Marcos Castillo, taking up Jean Dalevèze's preface to the catalogue. The Museum of Saint-Denis buys La Fenêtre, a large canvas, 100 Figure. In 1974, the Galerie Guiot presents, in Paris, a set of his lithographic work. In 1975, he travels to Austria and Germany during the summer to visit the museums of Vienna and Munich. In 1977, the International Gallery organizes a special exhibition in Lake Forest (USA). In 1978, a new special exhibition at the Galerie Guiot in Paris, on the main theme of the Marais Poitevin, at the same time as a presentation of the book "About lithography" (Editions Alphonse-Marré), master builder Jérôme Feugereux. In this book, reflections by Paul Collomb on his conception of lithography and largely on his conception of painting. It begins, in June, some studies of shipwrecks, in Brittany, in the area of Concarneau. In November 1980, a special exhibition in Luxembourg (Galerie Marly). Several of his lithographs enter the Gdansk Museum (Poland). In May 1981, a very important exhibition on the theme "20 years of painting" at the Museum of Bourg-en-Bresse, with a catalogue prefaced by the curator of the museum, Françoise Baudson. At the same time, at the Albert Camus Cultural Center in the same city, there is an exhibition of all his lithographic work. In 1982, he is at the first Salon d'Angers organized by Jean Commère. In 1983, his particular exhibition at the Guiot gallery in Paris bring together his main paintings of the last five years: wrecks, harlequins, flower markets, still lifes. In summer, he travels to Prague and Vienna and reviews the museums. In 1984, he is invited to the France-Japan exhibition organized by Art Yomiuri. The whole exhibition will circulate until the end of the year 1984 in the various Japanese museums and the main cities of this country: Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka. In 1981, 20 years of painting in Bourg en Bresse. In 1986, monograph by Bertrand Duplessis. In 1989, thesis on the artist by Benoît Giraud. In 1992, retrospective at Angers (from 1943 to 1992). Paintings, drawings, watercolors, pastels, lithographs. Catalogue with thirty color reproductions. Foreword Jean Pérol. In 1996, O.JI-HO Award for the first time awarded to an European painter. Paul Collomb dies on October 6th, 2010 in Paris.
  • Creator:
    Paul Collomb (1921 - 2010)
  • Creation Year:
    1960s
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 21.46 in (54.5 cm)Width: 16.23 in (41.2 cm)Depth: 2.37 in (6 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Saint Amans des cots, FR
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1088214811002

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