Patrice Marchal

"Fleurs des champs II", oil painting on canvas, size with frame 33x41 cm

2019

Born in Abidjan in 1963, Patrice Marchal lives his childhood in Morocco. Used to see big spaces and wide blue sky and horizons, he transports this look with him to France and transpo...

Provenance: FWJ Fitzgerald's private collection Bequest to the Art gallery of Ontario in 1949 Deaccesioned to benefit art purchases of AGO, in 2015 Christie's sale 24/06/2015, lot 5910568 Maris was a pupil of Corot and Lequien. Dutch painter, brother of the painters Jacob and Matthijs Maris, he is considered one of the leading representatives of the Hague School, and the one in whom an impressionist approach was most apparent. His favorite themes were landscapes and rural life, on which subject he declared: "I don't paint cows, but light effects". He was a friend and collaborator of other representatives of the Hague School, such as Anton Mauve and Hendrik Willem Mesdag...

Beautiful mid century landscape painting of an arched bridge over a glassy lake with tiny figures by unknown artist Hovanessi...

A rare figurative for this well-listed California artist of a Nevada mining town landscape with prospector and burro by George Sanders Bickerstaff (American, 1893 - 1954), circa 1920. Signed lower right corner. Presented in patinated gilt-toned wood frame. Image size: 24"H x 30.5"W. Frame size: 32.5"H x 38"W. Bickerstaff was active/lived in California, Arkansas. George Bickerstaff is known for Landscape, coastal views, still life, western painting. Landscape painter. Born in Marianna, Arkansas on April 12, 1893. Bickerstaff was a self-taught artist except for a brief period at the Art Institute of Chicago. He led a peripatetic existence before moving to California in 1922. His early years were spent in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Van Nuys. He exhibited often in the latter with Paul Lauritz. A prolific oil painter of mountain and desert scenes, his landscapes often include eucalypti as well as rolling hills of California wildflowers...