Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
French, 1921-2007
French artist Yvonne Canu was transfixed by Pointillism, a technique that was pioneered in the 19th century by Georges Seurat, and devoted her career to mastering it. Over half a century after Seurat’s death, Canu gravitated towards French Postimpressionism and was pivotal in carrying Pointillism into the modern era.
Born in Morocco, Canu studied in Paris at the École des Arts Decoratifs until the start of WWII. Following the war, she met French painter Élisée Maclet and French-Japanese artist Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita who were influential in her exploration of Impressionist art. She also studied Cubism at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière alongside prolific French artist Ossip Zadkine.
Seeing Seurat’s masterpiece A Sunday on La Grande Jatte ultimately set Canu on a path to understand the complexities of his practice. She investigated Seurat’s use of complementary color and studied the work of French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul, who in the 19th century worked as the director of the famous Parisian tapestry factory, Gobelins Manufactory. In her work, she experimented with dabbing colors in such a way as to allow the viewer to perceive the greater tableau from afar.
Through this approach, Canu championed a colorful approach to water scenes including seascapes, harbors and rivers. Critics have drawn comparisons between Canu’s work and other 20th-century French artists who expanded on the innovative artistic ideas established in the 19th century.
Find original Yvonne Canu paintings and wall decorations on 1stDibs.
to
1
1
4
2
1
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
8
1
1
7
1
8
4
1
1
1
1
1
1
8
8
4
4
1
11
681
610
307
232
8
5
3
Artist: Yvonne Canu
'Marché de Provence - A Market in Provence' Signed oil painting on canvas
By Yvonne Canu
Located in St. Albans, GB
Yvonne Canu
1921 – 2008
Signed bottom right and signed, titled and numbered 300 on the reverse
Canvas Size: 21 x 25" (54 x 65cm)
Outside Frame Size: 29 x 33" (74 x 85cm)
Yvonne Ca...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$20,575 Sale Price
20% Off
'Barques a St. Florent Corse' . Boats at Saint Florent, Corsica. Pointillism
By Yvonne Canu
Located in St. Albans, GB
Yvonne Canu
1921 – 2008
Canvas Size: 18 x 21.5 (46 x 55cm)
Outside Frame Size: 25.5 x 29" (65 x 74cm)
Yvonne Canu is currently one of the most sought after contemporary pointillis...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saint-Tropez, Le Port By Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Yvonne Canu
1921-2008 French
Saint-Tropez, le port
Signed "CANU" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
The peaceful port of Saint-Tropez is captured in serene detail in this extraordinary...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Repos dans un champs de coquelicots - Pointillist Landscape Oil by Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed pointillist oil on panel figures in landscape by French neo-impressionist painter Yvonne Canu. This stunning piece depicts a couple resting under a parasol in a field of wildf...
Category
1960s Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
La Conciergerie - Neo Impressionist Pointillist Riverscape Oil by Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed pointillist oil on canvas landscape by French Neo-Impressionist painter Yvonne Canu. The work depicts a view of revellers on a boat travelling along the River Seine in Paris, ...
Category
1980s Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Preparations for the Regattas by Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Yvonne Canu
1921-2008 French
Preparations for the Regattas
(Préparations aux Régates)
Signed "Canu" (lower right)
Titled "Préparations aux Régates" (en verso)
Oil on canvas
A lum...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marseille By Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Yvonne Canu
1921-2008 French
Marseille
Signed "CANU" on lower left
Oil on canvas
The picturesque French Riviera is presented in French Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu's signature ...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'La Fontaine de Neptune a Paris' - The Fountain of Neptune in Paris Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in St. Albans, GB
Yvonne Canu
1921 – 2008
Signed bottom right and signed, titled and numbered 967 on the reverse
Canvas Size: 22 x 18" (55 x 46cm)
Outside Frame Size: 28 x 24" (70 x 60cm)
Yvonne Ca...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Related Items
Just Swim V
By Gordon Hunt
Located in Deddington, GB
Just swim V [2022]
original
Acrylic on deep edge canvas
Image size: H:30 cm x W:30 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:30 cm x D:4cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu...
Category
2010s Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Beach Day Costa Brava Spain mediterranean oil on board painting european art
By Josep Puigdengolas
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Beach Day, Costa Brava, Spain
Artist: Josep Puigdengolas Barella (1906–1987)
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 33 x 46 cm (12.99 x 18.11 in)
Period: 1960s
Signature: Signe...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Josep PuigdengolasBeach Day Costa Brava Spain mediterranean oil on board painting european art, 1968
$1,146 Sale Price
46% Off
H 13 in W 18.12 in
Modernist Mid century Swedish tram and figure scene in Fauvist colors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...
Category
1950s Fauvist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Scintillating Light: View from the Hills to the City, a winding path, Madrid
Located in Norwich, GB
A perfectly Impressionistic work with beautifully loose, almost pointillist brushstrokes, focussing on the scintillating light and the remote hilltop atmosphere.
Artist Frans Hog...
Category
1910s Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,400
H 14.97 in W 19.3 in D 1.19 in
Nocturne, Fenetre Eclairee - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil - Henri Le Sidaner
By Henri Le Sidaner
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed divisionist landscape oil on panel circa 1920 by French painter Henri le Sidaner. This stunning piece depicts a white house framed by trees at nighttime. Light glows from the...
Category
1920s Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Les Jockey & La Propietaire - Post Impressionist Figurative Oil by E Grau Sala
By Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
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...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venise - Huile sur toile, 50x100 cm., encadré
By Serge Mendjisky
Located in Nice, FR
Très belle vue de Venise. Huile sur toile par Serge Mendjisky daté 1980. Dimensions avec le cadre: 72x122 cm.
Serge Mendjisky est ne en 1929 et mort e...
Category
1980s Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Costa Brava oil painting spanish seascape
By Rafael Duran Benet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title of the work: Costa Brava
Artist: Rafael Durán Benet
Technique: Oil on canvas mounted on board
Dimensions: 15 x 18 inches
Support: Board
Condition: Unframed
Period: 1990s
...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Canvas
$501 Sale Price
47% Off
H 14.97 in W 18.12 in
Antique American School Pointillist Fall Landscape Lake View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school pointillist landscape painting. Oil on board, circa 1920. Unsigned. Displayed in a period impressionist frame. Image size, 14"L x 16"H.
Category
1910s Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
H 20 in W 18 in D 2 in
"Porto St. Martin - Paris" Colorful Impressionist Cityscape Scene Oil on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A charming Parisian scene oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Johanne Schiefer. This painting is a wonderful example of his work from the prime of his career. Here you see figures walking the streets by the Porto st. Martin in Paris with an abundance of color and life. The magic is being felt with all the magnificent details, as Schiefer captures the architecture of Paris so beautifully; you can feel the energy of the day and the excitement. The piece is signed by the artist lower right and titled lower left and it comes housed in a wonderful wood carved antique frame with original name plate affixed bottom center and hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed.
Art measures 20 x 24 inches
Frame measures 28 x 32.5 inches
Johannes Schiefer was born in 1896 in the Netherlands, and quickly gained notoriety for his landscapes, still life’s and portraits. Schiefer won the Prix de Rome at the age of 19 and studied at the Düsseldorf Academy in Germany, and then moved to Paris where he continued his studies in art at the Beaux Arts, and later at the Villa Medici in Rome. He traveled to paint across Europe, primarily France and Italy and also Latin America.
When he married, he settled down in Nice France, and during the late thirties, he traveled and painted the coastline of the South of France, as well as Venice and the Adriatic. He remained in France until 1942, when he moved to New York with his family after the birth of their daughter, future actress Joanna Miles. Already an artist of stature when he arrived in New York, he settled with his family on Long Island, and for the next 30 years, Schiefer kept on painting and built a solid reputation as an important American artist. The Schiefers also had a son, Johannes Jr. After the war, Schiefer maintained a Paris studio and became a resident of Los Angeles for a time in the 1950s.
For the next 30 years Schiefer kept on painting and during his career had numerous one man shows, having exhibitions at: Gallery Zak in Paris; Kunsthaus in Hamburg; Kunsthalle in Munich; Stiebel Galleries in Paris; O'Connor Gallery in Ontario; Museum of Modern Art, Wildenstein & Co, Carol Carstairs Gallery and Schoeneman Galleries in New York City; Esther Robles Gallery, County Museum and Vigoveno Galleries in Los Angeles; and the San Francisco Museum.
Like Picasso, Schiefer never permitted himself to be “type-cast” in a single monotonous style. If there is anything that typifies his work, it is his versatility, his deft handling of subdued tones to create a unique brilliance of light and color that stamps every painting with his own individuality. In February 1964, Ethel Kennedy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,500
H 28.5 in W 32.5 in D 2 in
Winter Solstice: pointillist impressionist Winterscape snow landscape painting
By André Bourrie
Located in Norwich, GB
Like every true master painter, André Bourrie had a unique, distinctive style - an inimitable blend of neo-impressionism and pointillism which, while dra...
Category
20th Century Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
André BourrieWinter Solstice: pointillist impressionist Winterscape snow landscape painting, ca 1970
$2,400
H 25.2 in W 28.75 in D 1.19 in
Scottish Highland Seascape Shoreline Impasto Painting by Royal Society Artist
By Sheila Macleod Robertson
Located in Preston, GB
Scottish Highland Seascape Shoreline Impasto Painting of An Teallach, Gruinard Bay, Wester Ross by Royal Society Artist, Sheila Macleod Robertson RSMA, SWA. Presented in a vintage wo...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Board
$2,855 Sale Price
30% Off
H 18.12 in W 22.05 in D 2.37 in
Previously Available Items
Saint-Tropez by Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Yvonne Canu
1921-2008 French
Saint-Tropez
Signed "Canu" (lower right)
Titled "Saint-Tropez" (en verso)
Oil on canvas
An idyllic seaside cityscape of Yvonne Canu's beloved Saint-T...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bélon, le port à marée basse by Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Yvonne Canu
1921-2008 French
Bélon, le port à marée basse
(Bélon, The Port at Low Tide)
Signed "Canu" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
This original oil on canvas by Yvonne Canu capt...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing Boats In St. Tropez By Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Yvonne Canu
1921-2008 French
Fishing Boats in St. Tropez
Signed "CANU" on lower right boat
Oil on canvas
The picturesque French Riviera is presented in French Post-Impressionist ...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saint Tropez au soleil couchant - Pointillist Landscape Oil by Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled pointillist oil on cavas landscape by French painter Yvonne Canu. This stunning piece depicts boats moored at a harbour in Saint Tropez as the sun sets. There is a ...
Category
1970s Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
St. Tropez
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Yvonne Canu
1921-2008 French
St. Tropez
Signed "Canu" (lower right)
Signed and titled "St. Tropez / y. Canu" (en verso)
Oil on canvas
The picturesque French Riviera is presented ...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Douarnenez
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Yvonne Canu
1921-2008 French
Douarnenez
Signed "Canu" (lower right)
Signed and titled "Douarnenez / y. Canu" (en verso)
Oil on canvas
A picturesque harbor in the French town of Douarnenez is the subject of this extraordinary oil on canvas by the French Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu. The 20th-century painter's pointillist creations are distinctly modern, rendered with painstakingly precise dots of pure color that brilliantly blend together to form a cohesive work of art. This oil exemplifies her distinctive style, which displays the influence of the Post-Impressionist icon Georges Seurat in both its technique and choice of subject - though this work displays a more vibrant color palette, it is reminiscent of Seurat's Entrance to the Port of Honfleur. Canu's use of minuscule points of pigment and bright colors results in this stunning scene full of light and motion.
Born in Morocco in 1921, Yvonne Canu traveled to Paris to study at the reputable École des Arts Decoratifs. Following the First World War, she entered the circle of the French-Japanese painter...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
14 juillet, Montmartre (July 14, Montmartre)
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New Orleans, LA
A crowd celebrates Bastille Day in the Montmartre arrondissement of Paris in this brilliantly lit and vibrantly colored oil on canvas by the French Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu. The 20th-century painter's pointillist creations are distinctly modern, rendered with painstakingly precise dots of pure color that brilliantly blend together to form a cohesive work of art. This oil exemplifies her distinctive style, which displays the influence of the Post-Impressionist icon Georges Seurat in both its technique and choice of subject — a modern leisure scene. Canu's use of minuscule points of pigment and bright colors results in this stunning scene full of vitality and light.
Born in Morocco in 1921, Yvonne Canu traveled to Paris to study at the reputable École des Arts Decoratifs. Following the First World War, she entered the circle of the French-Japanese painter...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Port de Collioure
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New Orleans, LA
The port of the southern French town of Collioure is the subject of this vibrant oil on canvas by the French Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu. The 20th-century painter's pointillist cr...
Category
20th Century Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vue du Port, St Tropez
By Yvonne Canu
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Canvas measurement: 21" x 29" and with frame measures 30" x 39". Provenance: Purchased from Hilde Gerst Gallery in NYC in 1990, Private Collection...
Category
1980s Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sailboats in Saint Tropez French Oil Painting
By Yvonne Canu
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Sailboats in Saint Tropez.
Yvonne Canu (1921-2008) was a French painter, consider part of Neo-Impressionism, who used the techniques of pointillism in her work such as Georges Seurat...
Category
1980s Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
St Tropez
By Yvonne Canu
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed lower right and titled on reverse. Canvas measurement: 24" x 32". Yvonne Canu was born in 1921 in Meknes in Morocco from French parents. She started her art stu...
Category
1980s Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
St Tropez
By Yvonne Canu
Located in Wiscasett, ME
33" x 41" including the frame.
Oil on canvas, signed lower right and titled on reverse. Canvas measurement: 23.6" x 31.9". Yvonne Canu was born in 1921 in Meknes in Morocco from Fre...
Category
1980s Pointillist Yvonne Canu Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Yvonne Canu landscape paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Yvonne Canu landscape paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Yvonne Canu in oil paint, paint, canvas and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the Post-Impressionist style. Not every interior allows for large Yvonne Canu landscape paintings, so small editions measuring 37 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of H.M. Saffer II, Andre Hambourg, and Marcel Dyf. Yvonne Canu landscape paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $17,000 and tops out at $25,534, while the average work can sell for $21,267.