Bernadette van Baarsen

A Provençal Coastal Scene. Scenario 2..

2024

A contemporary Provençal coastal landscape in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom left. This vibrant artwork captures the serene yet dynamic intersec...

Contemporary Provençal coastal landscape in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom left. This artwork brilliantly captures a vibrant seascape at sunset,...

Contemporary Provençal landscape of cypress and olive trees in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right. This artwork captures a surreal landscape ...

Contemporary expressionist oil on linen of an oak tree in Provence by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right and presented in a white caisse americaine under glass....

This artwork titled "Paysage de la cote d'azur (Coastal Scene of the French Riviera)" c.1960, is an oil painting on canvas by French artist Rene Dulieu, 1903-1992. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 21.5 x 25.85 inches, framed size is 35 x 39 inches. Custom framed in original dark brown and gold distressed frame, with fabric liner and gold color fillet. It is in excellent condition, the frame have minor restorations, practically invisible. About the artist. Self-taught painter of figurative painting. At eleven years old, it was the Great War and his Certificate of Studies in his pocket, he first worked in the fields of the village farms, then until he was 17, he was employed at the Coeuvres distillery where he is responsible for the proper functioning of the machines. In 1925 he did his military service at the barracks of St Vincent de Laon (Aisne) in the 101st heavy artillery regiment as a pointer brigadier, and he was already drawing on notebooks. At the end of his service, having chosen to go to Paris to take drawing and painting lessons, he became a cashier at the Grand Magasins du Louvre. He begins to discover Paris, its districts, its buildings, shops, churches. During the week he sets up his easel on the sidewalks of Montmartre, Notre Dame, where the Latin Quarter and on Sundays, he sells these paintings on Boulevard Raspail. He took part in the Battle of France in September 1939at june 1940. He testifies in a notebook of the events and emotions he has gone through. After the Second World War, he set up his home and studio in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, but he remained very attached to his native village where he went very regularly. Married, he takes his family almost every summer to the Côte d'Azur where he paints with great pleasure the warm colors and the intense light of the Esterel or the Var coast. He participates in many Parisian salons and exhibitions in Paris and province. Awarded at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in 1961, as well as at the Salon Violet in Paris. From 1967, Mrs. Rosenthal of the Galerie Haussmann (Paris), regularly exhibited her works on "Old Paris" which particularly appealed to British and American tourists. He participated with the painters René Demeurisse...

This contemporary impressionist piece, infused with touches of Art Brut and Naïve art, is created by French artist Natalya Mougenot. Titled "Falling in Love with Provence," the artwo...

This contemporary abstract oil painting on paper, titled "The Provençal Coast", was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot in 2023. It is part of her abstract series, where she e...

This modern colorful expressive landscape artwork "Provence, always in my heart" is full of vivid colors which are my tools of expression to celebrate my love to the south of France....