Henri Sieurac

River Cottage 1849/ Barbizon landscape heralding Impressionism Jongkind's friend

1849

Antoine Williams Zarra (1820-1892) was an international man of mystery. When not painting in the rural village of Barbizon and its environs, he was mo...

A major, mid century modern work by French artist Claude Dechezelle (1928-2003). Having studied with the art deco painter and designer Jean Dupas at ...

A perfect painting for lovers of Japan and those of primitive/naive outside art. It is a work by an internatoanlly noted extraordinary artist with an extraordinary life. Maurice LOIRAND (1922-2008) is born into a working class family in Brittany, near the Atlantic coast coast in France. He starts working as a skilled labourer in the shipyards aged 15. Aged 20, when the Nazis start to occupy the country, he joins the Resistance movement, where he meets and befriends thinkers, painters and poets. He is thus introduced to an artistic and intellectual universe far removed from the world of his origins. Loirand finds himself drawn to art, and soon dedicates all his free time to learn how to paint. Completely self taught, he soon begins to exhibit his pictures alongside high level artists. He moves to Paris in the 1950s, and - although still working as a technician - paints all night. He finally becomes a full time artist in 1968. International travel and a multitude of exhibitions follow. He exhibits in Brazil, Argentina, and with Jean Tiroche Gallery in New York, among others. His work is now shown alongside works by Leger, Matisse and Picasso. The Collector's Guild New York Ltd commissions Maurice Loirand for several works of lithographic art. Loirand discovers Japan in the early 1970s, and decides to stay for 18 years. He marries Kazué SHIMOTORI, a Japanese poet...

The setting is the French coast, on a tranquil summer's evening. Clouds are drawing in, the sky is turning dusky pink and purple, but there is still time left for play, for the children on the beach...

Luminous beautiful landscape. It's a landscape from Barbizon school. Probably inspired by Caspar David Friedrich, known for his landscapes seeking to tend towards the magnificent,...

⭐Luminous beautiful landscape. ⭐ It's a landscape from Barbizon school. Probably inspired by Caspar David Friedrich, known for his landscapes seeking to tend towards the magnificen...

Signed figures in riverscape oil on canvas by French Barbizon painter Leon Augustin Lhermitte. The piece depicts a rural landscape with washerwomen in traditional Breton clothing was...

One of early of the French artist’s works by Emile Godchaux (fra.: Émile Godchaux, 1860 - 1938), late 19th century. This amazing landscape takes us to a cloudy spring day, making us ...