Albert Junyent Quinquer

Barcelona Liceo oil on canvas painting spanish urbanscape Spain

1956

Frame size 78x87 cm. Rafael Griera Calderón was born incidentally in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1934. After residing in Olot from 1942 to 19...

Title: Street in Ibiza with Figures Artist: Ignacio Gil Sala (Barcelona, 1913 – 2003) Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 60 x 73 cm (23.6 x 28.7 in) Support: Unframed canvas P...

Pluie a Venice is painted in Hambourg's preferred palette of muted blue-green, grey, and gold with splashes of ruby red, deep blue, and emerald green. The soft colors work well for beach scenes and rainy days such as the ones portrayed in this painting. The impressionistic scene shows multiple pedestrians strolling down the boardwalk, shielding themselves from the rain with colorful umbrellas that provide pops of color and balance the overcast sky. The background contains a three-masted ship and Piazza San Marco's famous bell tower and Basilica. Hambourg uses the minimum number of brushstrokes necessary to portray ships, seagulls, buildings and people as well as reflections on the glistening sidewalk. The brushstrokes in the sky have an interesting texture that is controlled yet carefree and there is heavy impasto throughout. His portrayal is both realistic and romanticized. Hambourg was clearly influenced by the great Impressionist artists of earlier generations, perhaps none more than the one with a direct connection to his family. Hambourg's wife, Nicole Rachet, was born into a family with a large collection of works by Impressionist master Eugene Boudin. Rachet's grandfather was a contemporary and friend of Boudin's, and a collector of his work. In their later years, Hambourg and Rachet donated over 300 canvases by Boudin and other artists to the Eugene Boudin Museum in Honfleur, France. It was such a large and important gift that the collection bears...

Louis Jacques VIGON (1897-1985) Neige à Saint Martin de Boscherville Oil on canvas Size: 60 x 81cm Signed lower left. Titled on the back Provenance : - Tuffier Gallery, Les Andelys...