Claude Venard
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Late 20th Century Paintings
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Mid-19th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Early 20th Century Abstract Geometric Paintings
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1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Modern Interior Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1960s Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings
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1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Gouache, Paper
1960s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
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1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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1960s Post-War Figurative Sculptures
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1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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Vintage 1970s Brazilian Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Interior Paintings
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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
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1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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20th Century Abstract Paintings
Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings
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Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Landscape Paintings
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20th Century Modern Interior Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
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1970s Cubist Still-life Paintings
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20th Century Abstract Paintings
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20th Century Still-life Paintings
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
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20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
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20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Still-life Paintings
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
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Late 20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Post-War Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
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19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
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19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
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19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
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19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
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Mid-19th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
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Mid-19th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
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1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
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1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
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1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1980s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
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1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
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19th Century Abstract Paintings
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Claude Venard For Sale on 1stDibs
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Claude Vénard has a distinct style — it’s post-Cubist in its composition and he progressively accentuated the chromaticism of his palette up to reaching the crudest of colors, which he used in very thick forms and sometimes applied with a pallet knife.
Vénard was born in France in 1913 and, dedicating himself fully to making paintings at the age of 17, he studied at the École des Arts Appliqués for six years, having fled the Académie des Beaux-Arts after just 48 hours. In 1938 he signed the Rupture manifesto and participated in the first exhibition of the influential group Forces Nouvelles, alongside Francis Gruber and Pierre Tal-Coat at the Galerie Billiet-Vorms. A close affinity subsequently developed among these painters and together they were instrumental in forging the aesthetic of the immediate postwar period of the Ecole de Paris.
Vénard quickly became known for his rich impasto and varying texture. He received critical acclaim and was personally championed by Andre Salmon and Waldemar George, who described his painting as “Apocalyptic art! Beings and everyday things suddenly regain their meaning. Emotional values are once more felt.”
Vénard’s distinct and alluring compositions developed through a post-Cubist system that oscillates between abstraction and naturalism. He opens up perspectives projecting spatial vistas into every part of the canvas, in accordance with an emotional rather than a physical order. Familiar objects arise in the midst of a network of striations and hatching. Colors grow more intense in certain zones to stress the solidity of the composition; in other zones the light is more tenuous and diaphanous, as if to indicate space of different emotional intensity.
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(Biography provided by Gallery of the Masters)
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