Van Waldron

'Letts Lake, Mendocino', California Plein Air, Who Was Who in American Art, AIC

1988

Signed lower right 'Vantore' for Mogens Erik Christien Vantore (Danish, 1895-1977) and painted circa 1925. Framed dimensions: 23 H x 28.75 W x 1.25 D inches. An early twentieth-cent...

'Rue Royale, Paris' by Mario Agostinelli, 1965. Latin American Modernist, Rio Museum of Modern Art, Butler Institute, National Academy of Design, California Academy of Fine Arts ----- Signed lower right, 'Agostinelli' for Mario Agostinelli (Peruvian-American, 1915-2000) and dated 1956; additionally titled, lower left, 'Rue Royale, Paris'. Displayed in a substantial, hand-carved and water-gilded frame. Framed dimensions: 18.25 H x 1.5 D x 22.5 W inches A delicately painted oil showing a view of the Paris Opera House, as seen from the Rue Royale, with numerous pedestrians and vehicles moving beneath a lilac, evening sky. Born in Peru, Mario Agostinelli studied in Argentina, Brazil, France and Italy. Over the course of a long career, he exhibited widely and with success including at the Allied Artists of America, the National Academy of Design, the Butler Institute of Art, the California Academy of Fine Arts, Knickerbocker Artists and, in the 1970s, at New York's Berlin Gallery. Agostinelli was the recipient of numerous prizes and juried awards including the Samuel Morse...

'Harvest Evening', Paris, Academie de la Palette, Post-Impressionist, Benezit --------- Signed lower right, 'A. Naur' for Albert Naur (Danish, 1889-1973) ...

American School coastal landscape showing a view of breakers crashing in towards a rocky coast with cypress trees in the distance.

Francesc Saborit Sans - Nautical port of Barcelona - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 46x55 cm. Without frame.

“View of Villefranche-sur-Mer” Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968) Oil on canvas, circa 1920s 24 x 32 1/2 (29 x 38 1/2 framed) inches Bathed in the soft and steamy light of the S...

Hugues Claude Pissarro b.1935 French Les toits rouges (The Red Roofs) Signed “H. Claude Pissarro” (lower right) Oil on canvas Capturing the tranquil charm of provincial France, H...

EMILIO GRAU SALA Spanish, 1911 - 1975 PLAGE DE TROUVILLE signed Grau Sala (lower left) signed again, located & dated "Grau Sala, Trouville, 1953" on the reverse oil on canvas 15 X 24 inches (38 X 61 cm.) framed: 24-1/2 X 33-3/4 inches (62.5 X 85.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Private French Collection Emilio Grau Sala came from a family of artists. He was born in Barcelona in 1911 and his father, a good cartoonist, had been one of the promoters of the "Salon des Humanistes" and made his exhibitions normally in the Parés Hall. His first works were exhibited at the Salon des Independents, in the years 1930-33. Grau Sala was essentially a Mediterranean painter, son of post-impressionism and enriched with French painting of the last fifty years. Grau Sala lived and absorbed all the avant-garde movements that broke through in Paris, but never adhered to any. Creating your personal style. His pictorial lyricism and naturalism superimposed the evotative and sensitive quality of the image to any other concern. In 1953 Grau Sala spends his first summer in Honfleur becoming one of the most active Honflerian painters. Honfleur forms a coast triangle next to Deauville and Trouville, and in that August of 53, Grau Sala pinto is an elegant beach, which at that time met French and European high society. His works can be found in the Museums of the Villa de Paris, L'Ile de France Museum, at the Château de Sceaux, Honfleur Museum, La Rochelle Museum, Barcelona Museum, Tossa de Mar...