Josine Vignon

20th French Post Impressionist Oil Busy Summer Beach Scene Many Figures & Color

1960's

Artist/ School: by Mathilde ARBEY (French 1890-1966), signed lower left corner, atelier stamped verso Title: Elegant figures walking through a warm garden (most likely in the South ...

Apres Midi by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 38 x 31 inches canvas: 34x 28 inches Very good condition ...

Quai des Grand Augustins French School, indistinctly signed dated verso 1959, inscribed with title oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 23 x 29.5 inches canvas: 18 x 24 inches pro...

Artist/ School: Constant Dore (French 1883-1963), signed lower corner Title: The Village Street. Beautiful quality work showing influence from the Pont-...

A beautiful woman sits at an open window, gazing down at a small bird who has landed nearby in this serene portrait by Charles Levier. Warm orange tones are played off their complements in shades of blue, the artist utilizing several different layers of oils to create a subtle and relaxed view of a spring day near the sea. Beyond the window a small chapel sits on a peninsula, surrounded tranquil blue waters. This work, like many of Levier's, belongs to the French figurative movement of the Glorious Thirty (Les Trente Glorieuses) - the golden period of thirty years after WWII which were a time of great hope and prosperity in France. Inspired by Hollywood cinema, Charles Levier sought harmony in composition and purity of color and form. His said that his creations represented "a light and delicate world, of dark and subtle shades and colors." Levier worked in a somewhat abstracted, cubist style. Additionally he often employed the French technique of "cloisonnism" (after the French for "partition"), a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours, also seen in this work. The term was coined by critic Edouard Dujardin on the occasion of the Salon des Indépendants, in March 1888 and was commonly used by artists like Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, Paul...

An important oil on canvas village landscape, probably Gassin in the South of France, by noted Dutch painter Willem Anthonie 'Wim' Oepts. The painting carries the atelier stamp botto...

Signed lower right and dated 1930. Lever’s “Fishing Harbor in Brittany” is as much a scene celebrating the boats and quaint architecture of coastal France, as it is a nod to its ...

Reinhold Grohmann (1877-1915) was a German painter who studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, a renowned art school that attracted students from all over the world. Grohmann's wo...