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Tony Agostini
Large Modernist Colorful Atelier French Expressionist Oil Painting Tony Agostini

1958

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Tony Agostini (French, 1916 - 1990) Large oil painting on canvas depicting a still life scene with flowers on a canvas and easel titled "L'Atelier". Hand signed to lower right and dated 1958. Dimensions: approx. 39 1/2" height x 32" width. Measures approx. 48" height x 38 1/4" width overall including frame. Provenance: Carel Gallery (Miami Beach, Lincoln Rd) Tony (Peter) Agostini is a Corsican French artist born in 1916 in Bastia, Corsica and died in 1990 in Antony, (Hauts-de-Seine) France. He was a painter and lithographer. He was a self-taught painter. He was influenced by Eugene Paul in his use of color and by Paul Cézanne principles in his forms, occasionally inflected with Cubism. He began painting in 1946, his first pictorial themes being the movements of crowds and nocturnal Paris. Then moving towards landscapes, studio interiors and more essentially towards cubist still life (a major theme in his lithograph work). In 1957, Tony Agostini moved to Antony, where he lived until his death. Agostini met Gen-Paul, Francis Carco, and Marcel Ayme in Montmartre in 1944, and then came to painting. He participated in several of the annual shows of Paris, from 1953 Salon Painters Witnesses of Time, in 1955 and at the annual School of Paris exhibition Galerie Charpentier, in 1957 at the Salon des Tuileries. He has made numerous solo shows since the first in 1947 and the second in 1948 and again in 1951.1 952, Paris Gallery Visconti 1957. 1963 Galerie Charpentier, 1959. 1962 New York, San Francisco 1960. 1962 and so on. Tony Agostini, Maurice Sarthou, Paul Rebeyrolle, Roger Edgar Gillet, Henri Devieux, René Margotton, Andre Marchand, Henri Plisson, Guy Bardone, Maurice Brianchon, Jean Calogero. Agostini was a Baroque expressionist along with Roger Lersy (who painted his portrait) Gabriel Dauchot, Jean Commère and Raymond Guerrier they worked in a Fauvist expressionism which was part of the continuation of Bernard Buffet's miserabilism. He was part of the post war School of Paris, Duilio Barnabas, Philippe Cara Costea , Antoni Clave , Salvador Dalíi, Tsuguharu Foujita, Jean Cocteau, Leonor Fini, Mathieu Mathieu, Claude Venard, Michel Ciry, Pierre-Yves Tremois, Ossip Zadkine, Ernst Fuchs, Bernard Lorjou and André Minaux.
  • Creator:
    Tony Agostini (1916 - 1990, French)
  • Creation Year:
    1958
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 38.25 in (97.16 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    good. original frame and mat might have some wear. please see photos.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38213914412
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