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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Le Soleil Blanc, Modern Oil Painting and Sand on Canvas by Claude Venard
By Claude Venard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Claude Venard, French (1913 - 1999) - Le Soleil Blanc, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil and Sand on Canvas, signed lower left and titled on verso, Size: 20 x 28.75 in. (50.8 x 73.03 ...
Oil
Green Sunflower, Cubist Oil on Canvas Painting by Claude Venard
By Claude Venard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Claude Venard, French (1913 - 1999) - Green Sunflower, Year: 1968, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower left and dated on verso, Canvas Size: 39.5 x 39.5 in. (100.33 x 100.33 cm), ...
Oil
L'Atelier Venard en Hiver - Abstract Interior and Landscape Oil by Claude Venard
By Claude Venard
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas interior overlooking a landscape by French abstract painter Claude Venard. The piece depicts an interior scene with a table in the foreground. Amongst the items ...
Oil, Canvas
Nature morte en rouge et noir (Still-life in Red and Black), 1953
By Claude Venard
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Claude Vénard was born in Paris in 1913 to an established, middle-class family from Bourgogne. Although he was a businessman, his father accepted and supported his devotion to the arts. The blossoming artist was accepted at the prestigious École des Beaux-arts but quickly rejected the formality of traditional academic art training. Instead, Vénard began attending night courses at the École de Arts Appliqués at age seventeen to supplement his independent education. After six years of dedicated study the painter was forced, due to economic difficulties, to withdraw from the school and seek employment. Vénard became a restoration specialist...
Canvas, Oil
Nature morte au vase, Modern Oil Painting on Canvas by Claude Venard
By Claude Venard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Claude Venard, French (1913 - 1999) - Nature morte au vase, Year: 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 29.5 x 29.5 in. (74.93 x 74.93 cm), Frame Size: 35.5 x 35...
Oil
"Venice Canal, Italy" Claude Venard, French Post-Cubist Mid-Century Modern
By Claude Venard
Located in New York, NY
Claude Venard (French, 1913 - 1999) Venice Canal, Italy, circa 1950-55 Oil on canvas 24 x 24 inches Signed lower center Provenance: Private Collection, Massachusetts The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Galerie Felix Vercel. Claude Venard was a notable exponent of the French mid-century post-Cubist movement. He was born to bourgeois parents from Burgogne in Paris, on March 21, 1913. At the age of 17, he enrolled and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, but remained for only two days, not adhering to the school's academic style. Instead, he spent the following six years at the École des Arts Appliqués, taking evening classes and embracing the contemporary Parisian art scene, all the while becoming recognized in its circles. Not able to support himself as an artist, by 1936 he found employment as a restorer at the Louvre, further honing his artistic skills. Paris of the period was dominated by an art trend that strongly favored abstraction. Following a group show at the Galerie Billet-Worms in 1935, art critic Waldemar George declared: "Let's be young again! Painting is not dead… Its course has not stopped. Forces Nouvelles is born." Venard contributed and initially adhered to the strict disciplines of the Forces Nouvelle group. But as with many of his fellow members, he soon abandoned it seeking individual expression. Following WWII, Venard rekindled friendships with past Forces Nouvelles members, joining Pierre Tal-Coat, André Marchand, André Civet...
Canvas, Oil
Colorful Oil on Canvas "Nature Morte Aux Fruits" by Claude Venard
By Claude Venard
Located in Montreal, QC
Claude Venard, French painter (1913-1999).Colorful abstract cubist oil on Canvas "Nature Morte Aux Fruits ". Signed "C. Venard", label to the back May 9, 1989, lot 60 Provenance: Collection of Litsa Tsitsera, New York;, Christie's East, NY, May 9, 1989, lot 60, "Modern and Contemporary Paintings...
Canvas
Beautiful and big oil on canvas painting Composition in Blue colors by Venard
By Claude Venard
Located in Jerusalem, IL
Beautiful and big 100X100 cm oil on canvas painting Composition in Blue colors by the well known French artist Claude Venard. the painting is showing white sails and nets.
Canvas, Oil
Seascape : Bather and Boats - Original lithograph, Handsigned and Numbered /100
By Claude Venard
Located in Paris, IDF
Claude VENARD (1913-1999) Woman by the Sea Original Lithograph Signed in pencil Numbered / 100 copies On Arches vellum, 74.5 x 52.5 cm Very good condition, minor handling defects o...
Lithograph
Still Life Oil Painting signed Claude Venard
By Claude Venard
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Still life painting of fruit. Signed in lower right corner Frame: 21"t 17" w 2" d Canvas: 16" t 12" w Claude Venard (1913–1999) is celebrated as one of the great postwar French p...
Canvas, Paint
Nu au Tub
By Claude Venard
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed "C. VENARD" at lower right Overall dimensions, including the frame, are 33 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches
Canvas, Oil
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Nature morte florale, Modern Oil Painting and Sand on Canvas by Claude Venard
By Claude Venard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Claude Venard, French (1913 - 1999) - Nature morte florale, Year: 1974, Medium: Oil and Sand on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 25.5 x 21.5 in. (64.77 x 54.61 cm), Frame Size: ...
Oil
Oil on Canvas Still Life by Claude Venard
By Claude Venard
Located in Montreal, QC
Oil on Canvas Still Life by Claude Venard. Signed: "C. Venard" With gallery Sticker The Esplorer Art Gallery NYC Provenance: Collection White Plains NY. France: circa 1960
Canvas
$439Sale Price|69% Off
H 23.63 in W 31.5 in D 0.79 in
Mid-Century Futuristic French Cubist Cityscape. Oil and Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century cubist oil and acrylic futuristic cityscape on canvas. Signed bottom right, artist unknown. Highly colourful and well-composed interpretation of a cityscape of the futur...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$5,500
H 29.75 in W 35.75 in D 2 in
“Central Park in Winter, 1949” Manhattan New York City Snow Day Sleds Children
Located in Yardley, PA
With a studied hand, Sloan captures the human theater of a snow-covered Central Park filled with bundled-up New Yorkers, sledding, walking, chatting, and caring for children. The exp...
Tempera, Oil, Masonite
$1,180Sale Price|20% Off
H 35 in W 42 in D 2 in
Vintage Signed American School Modernist Abstract Cubist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive signed 1967 abstract landscape. Appears to be an abstract coastal scene. Framed.
Canvas, Oil
$1,192
H 9.06 in W 12.21 in D 0.4 in
Painting 'Vela' P. Fragiacomo, circa 1910s
By Pietro Fragiacomo
Located in Vicenza, VI
Oil painting on panel by artist P. Fragiacomo, dating from the 1910s. The work, titled "Sail," depicts a small sailboat in the middle of the sea with a figure on board seen from behi...
Canvas, Oil
$1,020Sale Price|20% Off
H 22 in W 26 in D 2 in
Antique American Impressionist New York Cityscape Framed Original Oil Painting
By Kamil Kubik
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011). Oil on board. Housed in a nice giltwood impressionist frame. Signed.
Canvas, Oil
$4,800
H 31.63 in W 23.75 in D 2 in
'Abstract in Ochre, Rust and Jade', Mid-century Modernist American Woman Artist
By Dora Masters
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, on canvas with certification of authenticity for Dora Masters (American, 1916-2003), bearing stamped wax seal and painted circa 1955. Provenance: Acquired from the a...
Canvas, Oil
$620Sale Price|20% Off
H 21 in W 27 in D 2 in
Antique American Period Cubist Abstract Signed Framed Rare Artist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare early American modernist cubist abstract by Anita F. Plumb. Framed. Pastel and gouache on paper. Signed. Image size, 20H by 26L.
Canvas, Oil
$1,073Sale Price|50% Off
H 23.63 in W 28.75 in
Landscape of the Ampurdán Spain oil on canvas painting spanish europe
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Technical sheet - Artist: Joan Carles Roca Sans (b. 1946) - Title: *Landscape of the Ampurdán* - Technique: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 23.6 x 28.7 ...
Oil, Canvas
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H 57 in W 24 in D 2 in
Huge Rare Vintage American School Cubist Abstract Pop Art Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed large abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Canvas, Oil
The Yellow Mandolin
By Maurice Green
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the day before settling in Los Angeles in the 1930’s. The artist continued his art education and began exhibiting throughout galleries in Southern California. As with many artists, his earliest style was more realist imagery, transitioning through his intense fascination with the cubist avant-garde movement, into specific cubist imagery which became the trademark style of painting for the remainder of his life. This is the first presentation of the paintings of Maurice Green since his death in 1993. “The Yellow Mandolin”, is an exceptional early work, an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1974, with an image dimension of 40 x 30 inches; a painting which clearly defines his talent as a fine cubist artist...
Oil
$3,578
H 8.86 in W 13.19 in D 1.97 in
Modern French Abstract Paintig Still Life by Roland Bierge
By Roland Bierge
Located in Roma, IT
Modern French Abstract Paintig Still Life by Roland Bierge Beautiful, important painting by the great French artist Roland Bierge (1922-1991). Still life oil on canvas ‘Pomme et Po...
Canvas, Oil
$5,500
H 27.5 in W 31.75 in D 2 in
Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas by Denis Paul Noyer, Framed
By Denis Paul Noyer
Located in Encino, CA
Untitled (Still Life), an original oil on canvas by Denis Paul Noyer, is a piece for the true collector. Noyer's use of red immediately captures the viewer, which serves as the backd...
Canvas, Oil
Marine
By Claude Venard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Claude Venard (1913-1999) France Our composition is an early work that features an abstract presentation of a harbor scene with Venard’s signature color palette of bright and earthy ...
Oil
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H 33 in W 28.5 in
Nature morte florale, Modern Oil Painting and Sand on Canvas by Claude Venard
By Claude Venard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Claude Venard, French (1913 - 1999) - Nature morte florale, Year: 1974, Medium: Oil and Sand on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 25.5 x 21.5 in. (64.77 x 54.61 cm), Frame Size: ...
Oil
Still life by Claude Venard - Oil on canvas 22x28 cm
By Claude Venard
Located in Geneva, CH
Claude Venard (1913-1999) was a French painter renowned for his distinctive approach to modern art. Venard is often associated with the Post-Cubist movement, a style that evolved from Cubism but embraced a more vibrant and expressive use of color and form. His paintings are characterized by bold, structured compositions, rich textures, and a dynamic interplay of geometric shapes. Born in Paris in 1913, Venard began his artistic education at the École des Beaux-Arts. He initially worked as a restorer of medieval...
Oil
Vue de Paris
By Claude Venard
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A superb large signed oil on canvas by Claude Venard depicting a view of Paris. The work is signed lower right and was originally sold by Galerie Romanet in Paris. The work is in exc...
Oil
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H 29.53 in W 29.53 in
Beautiful oil on canvas painting Composition in Blue colors by Venard
By Claude Venard
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A Beautiful oil on canvas painting Composition in Blue colors by the well known French artist Claude Venard. The painting will match and add color to the living room, guest rooms and...
Canvas, Oil
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H 29.53 in W 29.53 in
oil painting colorful by the artist Claude Venard still life with lamp abstract
By Claude Venard
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A fabulous figurative abstract oil painting with very good preserved impasto which adds fabulous depth and texture. The painting shows still life with lamp in the artist his own abs...
Canvas, Oil
La cafetière blanche
By Claude Venard
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE ON PAPER HANDSIGNED LOWER RIGHT VERY GOOD CONDITION UNIQUE PIECE A very rare piece of the french Master Provenance : Parisian auction sale house
Watercolor, Gouache
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H 29.5 in W 29.5 in
'Le Port' Abstract landscape painting of a harbour, boat, lighthouse and moon
By Claude Venard
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Le Port' by Claude Venard is an abstract landscape painting of a harbour, boats, lighthouse and the moon. Using a modern and intense colour palette, the composition is complimented ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 6.7 in W 19.3 in D 0.4 in
Still Life With Fruits - Original Oil on Panel Hand Signed
By Claude Venard
Located in Paris, IDF
Claude Venard Still life with fruits Oil on panel, c. 1930 Signed at bottom left On panel size 17 x 49 cm In wooden frame size 38 x 71 cm Very good condition
Oil
Large Vibrant Oil on Canvas of a Female Nude by Claude Vénard
By Claude Venard
Located in Montreal, QC
Large vibrant oil on canvas of a female nude by Claude Vénard." Femme À la plage " . France: circa 1970 Signed: "C Vénard" and marked on the back N.Y. 4627. P...
Paint
Claude Venard Post Cubist Oil Painting, 1970
By Claude Venard
Located in Hamburg, PA
An impressive large-scale Post-Cubist oil painting on canvas by Claude Venard. The vibrant painting of a landscape composition is uplifting with beautifu...
Gold Leaf
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H 12.75 in W 16.25 in
"Still Life of Fruit, " Claude Venard, French Post-Cubist Mid-Century Modern
By Claude Venard
Located in New York, NY
Claude Venard (French, 1913 - 1999) Still Life of Fruit, circa 1965 Oil on canvas 9 1/2 x 13 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private Collection, California Claude Venard was a notable exponent of the French mid-century post-Cubist movement. He was born to bourgeois parents from Burgogne in Paris, on March 21, 1913. At the age of 17, he enrolled and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, but remained for only two days, not adhering to the school's academic style. Instead, he spent the following six years at the École des Arts Appliqués, taking evening classes and embracing the contemporary Parisian art scene, all the while becoming recognized in its circles. Not able to support himself as an artist, by 1936 he found employment as a restorer at the Louvre, further honing his artistic skills. Paris of the period was dominated by an art trend that strongly favored abstraction. Following a group show at the Galerie Billet-Worms in 1935, art critic Waldemar George declared: "Let's be young again! Painting is not dead… Its course has not stopped. Forces Nouvelles is born." Venard contributed and initially adhered to the strict disciplines of the Forces Nouvelle group. But as with many of his fellow members, he soon abandoned it seeking individual expression. Following WWII, Venard rekindled friendships with past Forces Nouvelles members, joining Pierre Tal-Coat, André Marchand, André Civet...
Canvas, Oil