Pierre Gaston Rigaud Interior Paintings

"Interior with Chair and Vanity" circa 1918 Ricardo Gomez-Gimeno (Spain/France 1892-1954) Oil on cardboard Signed 17 1/4 x 14 1/4 (22 1/2 x 19 1/2 frame) This painting and its mat...

This intimate interior by Henrik Nordenberg demonstrates the artist's remarkable ability to transform an ordinary domestic setting into a scene of quiet beauty and contemplation. Exe...

A charming oil painting depicting an interior scene of a mother and child reading together while sitting on a table round table with a mantel, and a window on the background with the...

Signed still life oil on canvas circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Hippolyte Petitjean. depicting a beautifully coloured view of a vast landscape. The piece depicts a green jug, a bowl of red apples, a brown two-handled jug and a vase of flowers, all placed on a wooden table. Several landscape paintings adorn the wall behind. Signature: Signed with cachet lower right and again verso Dimensions: Framed: 26"x30" Unframed: 18"x22" Provenance: Galerie de l'Institut - Centenary Exhibition of Hippolyte Petitjean (1955 ) - original labels verso Hippolyte Petitjean started his training in Mâcon and then became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where he worked in Cabanel's studio. By selling two Seurat paintings...

Spanish Expressionist Female Nude Interior Figurative Oil Painting 1981 Artist: Jordi Arrué Medium: Oil on canvas Date: 1981 (inscribed on reverse) Signature: Signed lower right “Arrue” Dimensions: 33 × 41 cm (13 × 16.1 in) Framing: Unframed Condition: Good overall condition. Thick impasto surface well preserved consistent with the artist’s technique DESCRIPTION Expressive figurative composition by Spanish painter Jordi Arrué, dated 1981, depicting a reclining female nude within an intimate domestic interior. The painting is characterized by a richly textured impasto technique applied with broad brushstrokes and palette knife, particularly visible in the handling of the drapery and the construction of the figure. This material approach places the work within the Mediterranean figurative tradition developed in Spain during the 1970s and 1980s. The chromatic dialogue between the pastel tonalities of the body and the structured presence of the deep red cabinet creates a balanced composition with strong visual rhythm and painterly presence. Rather than academic realism, the artist builds the figure through layered color planes and tactile gesture, emphasizing the physicality of paint as a structural element of the image. Reclining interior nudes constitute one of the most recognizable subjects within Arrué’s figurative production of this period. Signed and dated on the reverse: 1981. ARTIST BIO Jordi Arrué is a Spanish painter active in Catalonia during the second half of the twentieth century, known for his figurative interiors and female nude compositions executed with a gestural and materially expressive brushwork. His work belongs to the Mediterranean figurative tradition that remained active in Spain during the 1970s and 1980s, where color structure and surface texture play a central role in the construction of the image. Today his paintings are appreciated within the context of late twentieth-century Spanish figurative painting and continue to circulate in European private collections and the secondary art market. ARTISTIC CONTEXT This work reflects connections with: Joaquín Sorolla Manuel Hernández...

"Cozy corner" There's something wonderful about having a cozy corner in the garden where fruit trees thrive and the warm evening breeze carries the scent of citrus. Moroccan gardens...

Signed and dated oil on board still life by post impressionist painter Claude Emile Schuffenecker. The piece depicts eight red and green apples set against a predominantly pale blue ...

Arnold Friedman studied with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League in 1905 . Yet as he developed his style he abandoned the academic influence of his teacher. He started experimenting with materials and techniques. Friedmans intimate style recalls a variety of post-impressionist artists such as Pointillism of Pisarro, Vuillard and Nabis, and perhaps even Seurat. His thick application of paint has definitive textual impasto that was influenced by his trip to Paris in 1909. In "Museum Piece...

This painting depicts an interior scene of a woman seated at an apartment in Paris with a window that overlooks the city and an iconic church with the artist's reflection in the armo...

In the late 1960', computers were different then they are today. A whole room was required to accommodate an IBM mainframe. It's here that this romantic scene takes place: in the p...

"Rhythms" In a Moroccan garden, you encounter a harmonious balance between earthly delights found in the lush greenery and the spirituality embedded in the garden's philosophy. The ...

Signed oil on canvas still life in interior circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Lucie Cousturier.. The work depicts a planter filled with flowers in a kaleidoscope of col...