Andre Franchet Figurative Paintings

Signed oil on canvas by Spanish post impressionist painter Emilio Grau Sala. The work depicts beachgoers in Deauville, France taking the last of the sun as it disappears beyond the horizon. The pale yellow light reflects on the sea, illuminating the water. Two horse riders gallop across the sand. The piece is painted in beautiful shades. Signature: Signed lower right and further signed and titled verso Dimensions: Framed: 27"x36" Unframed: 20"x29" Provenance: Private Collection - France Emilio Grau Sala studied at the fine arts school in Barcelona, where he became friends with Antoni Clavé. While still very young he began exhibiting at the Humourists Exhibition. In Paris he exhibited at the major annual Salons. He also exhibited at many international group exhibitions and in 1937 received an important award at the Carnegie Foundation International Exhibition in Pittsburgh. He showed collections of his work in many solo exhibitions starting in Barcelona in 1929 and 1930. His first solo exhibition in Paris was in 1937 and he went on to exhibit in Madrid, London, Buenos Aires and New York. After three trips to Paris he finally settled there in 1936. In Paris he was influenced by the paintings of Marcel Gromaire and especially Julius Pascin. He created theatrical sets and costumes for several plays including The Woman of Easy Virtue ( La Demoiselle de Petite Vertu) by Marcel Achard. He also illustrated many literary works including Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Bel-Ami by Maupassant, Colette's series of four Claudine novels, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time ( À la Recherche du Temps Perdu), and works by poets including Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal...

Signed, titled and dated figures in landscape oil on canvas by Spanish post impressionist painter Emilio Grau Sala. The work depicts a large group of jockeys and horse owners talking...

This painting was owned by Comte Robert de Montesquiou (1855–1921), Paris Literature: Jane Roberts, Jacques-Émile Blanche (2012), pg. 47 (color illus.), p. 191. Included as no. R...

Signed landscape oil on canvas circa 1910 by French post impressionist painter Leon Detroy. This work is painted in a divisionist style and depicts a view of gondolas on the canal in...

➡️ Landscape Farmyard Scene⬅️ ⏩It is signed A Siraudin⏪ ⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on cardboard canvas ⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork. ⭐Size:⭐22.5x29cm / 16.1x13 in...

A perfectly Impressionistic work with beautifully loose, almost pointillist brushstrokes, focussing on the scintillating light and the remote hilltop atmosphere. Artist Frans Hog...

Oil on canvas pointillist landscape by French painter Leon Pourtau. The work depicts a view of sail boats moored at the Suffren quay - a picturesque waterfront area in Saint-Tropez, ...

Signed and dated oil on canvas landscape by Flemish post impressionist painter Bernardus Henricus Klene. The work depicts a view of a path leading to a village on a summer's day. The...

Marie-Lucie Nessi Valtat South of France, ca. 1950 Oil on canvas mounted on board 13 3/4 x 10 2/3 in l 35 x 27 cm Frame size: 15 3/4 x 12 2/3 in l 40 x 32 cm Marie-Lucie Nessi Valta...

Signed oil on canvas riverscape circa 1980 by French artist Hugues Claude Pissarro. The piece depicts a view of boats sailing towards a viaduct on the River Seine. Painted in a divis...

Vaudeville Theatre by Edouard Cortes was painted circa 1955-60 and signed lower left. It is oil on canvas measuring 18x22 in original unlined condition....

Signed oil on original canvas landscape by French post impressionist painter Albert Charles Lebourg. The work depicts a view of rural Rouen, a city on the River Seine in northwestern...