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)
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
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...
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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
19th Century Still Life with Fruits Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
Nineteenth century. Still life with fruits. Oil on canvas, 64 x 52 cm. The still life analyzed presents a mixture of floral and fruit elements arranged in a circular order o...
Canvas
Vintage Flemish Style Floral Still Life Signed Oil Painting
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage Flemish-Style Floral Still Life, after Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Flowers in a Wooden Vessel". 20th Century Oil on canvas, signed lower right. This Continental still life p...
Canvas, Paint
Spanish Still Life Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in London, by appointment only
Spain, 19th century. A Spanish 17th century style rustic still life. Depicting wittles from everyday life. Measures: Height 19 ins (48cms). Width 27 ins (69cms).
Canvas
$3,200Sale Price|60% Off
H 70.25 in W 58 in D 3 in
Monumental Still Life Oil on Canvas of Fruit by M. Picot
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING a GORGEOUS 20th Century and ORIGINAL MONUMENTALLY LARGE oil on canvas by M. Picot. This is a BEAUTIFUL still life painting of fruit in classical style. Continental Schoo...
Canvas
$1,162 / set
H 14.25 in W 16.25 in D 14.25 in
Antique Still Life Fruits Oil on Canvas English Oil Painting Giltwood Frame
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally fine quality example of an elaborately framed English Still Life of fruits Oil Painting on canvas, in the style of Oliver Clare or Eloise Harriet Stannard, second qu...
Canvas, Giltwood
$750
H 17.72 in W 20.87 in D 2.37 in
Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas, French, 1935, Signed B. Salmon
Located in COLMAR, FR
A beautifully composed vintage French oil painting on stretched canvas, dated 1935 and signed by the artist B. Salmon in the lower left corner. This refined still life depicts a bowl...
Canvas
$1,775
H 28 in W 22 in D 1.25 in
Midcentury Abstract Expressionism Still Life Oil Painting Signed J. Haymson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Still life expressionist abstract of interior view. Oil on canvas, signed J Haymson (B.1903-D.1980). Recently custom framed. John Haymson was active/lived in District Of Columbia...
Canvas
1950s Still Life, Lou Burnett, Oil on Canvas
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A lively and confident still life by Lou Burnett, signed lower left. The composition arranges oranges, grapes, an apple, and a banana around a wicker basket, with a wine bottle, glas...
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Dutch Floral Still Life Oil Painting Signed Art
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Vivid and bright Dutch floral still life oil painting Brushwork so detailed and this really has a lot of verve and energy, would definitly lighten up any ...
Canvas
$3,950
H 31.25 in W 27.5 in D 2 in
19th Century Original Oil on Canvas Nature Morte Still Life with Hare and Birds
Located in Round Top, TX
Original oil on canvas painting "nature morte" or literally "dead nature," this still life depicts a hare and brightly colored birds. Unsigned Condition: Minor retouches. The canvas ...
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Large Floral Still Life Oil on Canvas
Located in Redding, CT
Large Floral Still Life Oil on Canvas. Soft pastels with blue and gray , pink and white. Flowers are hydrangeas and tulips. Housed in a silver gray gesso frame. Perfect romantic piec...
Canvas, Wood, Paint
$2,089
H 17.33 in W 24.02 in D 0.79 in
Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas Still Life with Fruits Signed by J. Zimmer
Located in Sofia, BG
Still life with fruits on dark background signed at lower left by Zimmer at 1905. Oil on canvas. Germany.
Canvas
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
Claude Venard Original Oil Painting
By Claude Venard
Located in Winnetka, IL
This oil painting was done by the french artist Claude Venard (1913-1999) It is ana abstract oil and titled "Paris" and displayed the New York gallery Ha...
Claude Venard Flower Still Life
By Claude Venard
Located in New York, NY
Fabulous Early 1950's Claude Venard Still life of Flowers in a purple Vase. Rare and striking color combinations. Signed C. Venard. Image size is:25"H ...
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Claude Venard Modernist Painting
By Claude Venard
Located in Hamburg, PA
Claude Venard was born in 1913 into a business family from Burgogne. At the age of 17 he began to take evening classes in painting at the Ecole des Art...
Canvas, Paint, Wood