French School

20th Century French Expressionist Provencal Landscape Green Hills & Town

20th century

Title: "Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of a Hillside Cityscape with Lush Vegetation" Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper Size:...

French School, mid 20th century landscape oil painting on wood panel, unframed double sided measures: 10.5 x 14.5 inches condition report: provenance: France 10.5 x 14.5 inches

Expressionist Landscape signed gouache painting on artist paper painting: 9.75 x 12.75 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: very good and sound condition Descr...

Provencal Landscape French artist, circa 1960's oil on board, framed framed: 13.5 x 17 inches board: 11 x 14 inches inscribed verso provenance: private collection, France condition: ...

#5-2815 A vintage fauvist style French village, oil painting on artist board displayed in a wood frame,signed lower left by Groendain

A French Expressionist oil on canvas landscape of countryside at L'Olivette, Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera, by Germain Bonel. The painting is signed bottom right and signed, dated and titled to the back of the canvas. A strong and impactful composition of the trees and forest leading down to the sea wall and then the Mediterranean beyond at the Port (or 'Abri' as it is also known) of l'Olivette on the west coast of Cap d'Antibes, the iconic location in the South of France. This former small traditional fishing port from the beginning of the twentieth century is now converted into a picturesque little marina on Cap d'Antibes, with its rocky cove, its beach, its pine forest, its umbrella pines, olive trees, fig trees, and agaves and its famous 'Villa Aujourd'hui' a modernist residence built by American architect Barry Dierks (1899-1960) in 1938 for socialite Mrs. Audrey Chadwick. L'Olivette has a privileged panoramic view of the Gulf of Juan, and the coastal shores of Cap d'Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, Golfe-Juan, and the Pointe Croisette of Cannes. Germain Bonel (5 August 1913 – 2002) was a French painter of Catalan origin. From 1967 to 1983, he was a professor of drawing and painting at the Perpignan School of Fine Arts. From 1969 to 1978, he also taught art in the schools of Saint-Cyprien-village and Saint-Cyprien-Plage. Germain Bonel's painting is both expressionist and decorative. Georges-Henry Gourrier said of him: "Germain Bonel's painting expresses [quite naturally] the singular beauty of forms, the radiant force of colour, the deepening of matter and the tenderness of the things of life. His work appears to be a painting of plenitude." From 1941 to 1945, Germain Bonel studied drawing at the Municipal School of Fine Arts in Perpignan. He won first prize in 1945. Out of competition, he continued his studies at the same school from 1945 to 1948 and he regularly exhibited his works at the annual exhibition held at the Salle Arago in Perpignan. Germain Bonel met François Desnoyer in 1950 and introduced him to the Catalan artistic milieu. He was admitted to the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1951 and exhibited until 1961, when he became a member of the salon. As early as 1951 a commentary said, "with the canvas hanging...

Blue landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), stamped verso original oil painting on paper overall size: 14 75 x 22 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed....

Watercolor on cream laid paper. Signed by the artist, inscribed "Paris" and dated in lower right in ink. Framed dimension overall 18 x 24 x 1.5 inches.