Victor Zarou

'Provençale Courtyard', Academie Julian, Paris, Post-Impressionist, Benezit

Signed lower right, 'Zarou' for Victor Zarou (French, b. 1930), inscribed 'Epreuve d'Artiste' with number and limitation 'XIII/XXV' (13/25), lower left and titled lower center 'Lourmarin' with inscription 'Last copy'. Born in 1930 near Saint-Tropez, Victor Zarou first studied with his father, Tony Cardella, the Impressionist artist. Zarou painted avidly from a young age, first exhibiting and selling his work at the age of twelve. After two years of military service, spent as a paratrooper, Zarou moved to Paris in 1955 to study at the Academie Julian...

Signed lower right, 'Georges Lambert' (French, 1919-1998), titled lower center 'Grau du Roi' and inscribed lower left 'Epreuve d'Artiste' with number and limitation 12/25. An Artist...

Signed lower right, 'Jacques Petit' with number and limitation, '34/275', lower left; additionally, certificate of authenticity from the Societe Verification de la Nouvelle Gravure I...

Signed lower right, 'Garcia Fons' for Pierre Garcia-Fons (French, 1928-2016), and inscribed lower left, 'Epr. d' Artist' (Epreuve d'Artist / Artist's Proof); also indistinctly inscri...

"Lautrec Book: From Au Pied du Sinai written by Georges Clemenceau" lithographs created by the legendary Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This book, Au Pied...

This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...

When the world thinks about the famous Group of Seven, this is likely the kind of image they recall—the quiet majesty of the Canadian wilderness. This lithograph by one of its youngest members, Alfred Joseph Casson is one of many classic landscapes he painted of the north—mountains, lakes, bare trees in the foreground rendered in his favoured bright palette of autumn colours—red, yellow, orange, a touch of green, and deep blue lakes against a cloudy white sky. Casson was an avid canoeist and spent many hours camping and drawing in northern Ontario often alongside fellow members of the Group. “I had to develop my own style. I began to dig out places of my own...” A. J. Casson He moved on to two commercial art firms in Toronto where he worked as an assistant to the artist Franklin Carmichael, one of the founding members of the renowned Group of Seven, (A group of Canadian landscape painters that included Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and A. Y. Jackson.). Carmichael encouraged him to sketch and paint on his own. Casson was invited to join the Group of Seven in the 1920’s with whom he painted for years. Following their demise, he formed the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour...

A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Bacchanale". The original painting was completed circa 1922. In the 1970's after Picasso's d...