Huguette Ginet-Lasnier

French Contemporary Modernist Oil Beautiful Coastal Inlet Sandy Beach

c. 2000's

The Grand Canal, Venice Alvarez ( Mid 20th Century) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 25 x 33 inches canvas: 20 x 28 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very ...

L’Enfant au Bateau Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front inscribed verso oil painting on canvas 22 x 18 inches. All the paintings we have for sale by this art...

Summer on the Beach Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) signed oil painting on canvas 20 x 24 inches. All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artis...

Beach Games Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) oil painting on textured canvas 29 x 24 inches. All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artists estate in France. The painting is in very good and presentable condition. Color: Pink, green, black and white Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier...

This work epitomizes Prestopino's interest in social realism which captures a quiet interlude in the everyday life of an "everyman." It also provides a contrast for our expectations as we view a tough, blue collar worker, with no one watching, as he sings a melody to the birds. In an original frame measuring 49" x 39" x 3.25" Provenance: Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery (label verso from 13 w. 113th street, where the gallery was located from 1926 until 1939) Private collection, NYC, c. 1935 By descent About this artist: Born in Little Italy in 1907, Gregorio Prestopino first set out to become a sign painter as the son of New York City immigrants. Instead, his talent provided a life-changing scholarship to the National Academy of Design, and for five years he studied drawing under C. W. Hawthorne. He spent the summer of 1934 at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His deep involvement with the colony led him to later serve as its director in 1954. Much of Prestopino’s work was in the vein of social realism. During the 1940s and 1950s he became deeply invested in portraying everyday Manhattan and Harlem scenes. He first became interested in the Ashcan school at the National Academy of Design, and remained committed to an interest in working with urban scenes. His lively treatment of people and events revealed his affinity for sixteenth-century artist Pieter Breughel...

This painting is illustrated in the Catalogue of the 1945 Encyclopedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting, p.84. Written and edited by Grace Pagano. "Painting ...

Rafael de Soto - Village street - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 41x33 cm. Without frame.

Summer Resort in Michigan is an exceptional work painted by the Chicago Modernist, William Schwartz. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago shortly ...