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Set of Four, Early 19th Century Hand Coloured Engravings, Horses and Carriages
Located in Cotignac, FR
Set of four early 19th century English hand coloured caricature engravings of horses and carriages by S and J Fuller. Presented in period plain wood frames under glass.
A charming s...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Animal Prints
Materials
Ink, Paper
Watercolor Interpretation of the The Raft of the Medusa After Théodore Géricault
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour on paper interpretation of the Raft of the Medusa by English artist Derek Carruthers. The work is signed and titled to the back of the paper.
A vivid and engaging interp...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
19th Century Overdoor Trumeau, Still Life Oil on Panel of a Cornucopia of Fruit.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A 19th century oil on wood panel overdoor still life of a tablescape with fruits, presented in a period gilt frame.
A charming cornucopia from the belle époque period when artists w...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
French Impressionist Oil on Board, Wooded Landscape, The Terrace of the Chateau
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist oil on board of a wooded landscape presented in a period carved wood gilt and patinated frame with trade label to the reverse for a gallery in Grenoble.
A charm...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th Century Danish Drawing and Watercolour Study of a Tree at Indelluket
By Thorald Læssøe
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century watercolour drawing and watercolour study of a tree by noted Danish artist Thorald Læssøe. The work is monogram signed bottom left and there is an annotation in the ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
19th Century Architectural Danish Drawing & Watercolour of Frederiksborg Castle
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century watercolour drawing of Frederiksborg Castle by noted Danish artist Thorald Læssøe. The work is monogram signed to the back of the paper where there is another drawin...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor, Paper
French Expressionist Oil, La Place du Tertre Montmartre and Sacrè Coeur Paris
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Expressionist oil on board of The Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur in Paris by Bernard Vivier. Signed to the back of the panel, presented in plain wood frame.
A wonderful colo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Impressionist View of The Leuvehaven in the Port of Rotterdam, Dutch Watercolour
Located in Cotignac, FR
Impressionist Dutch watercolour on paper of a harbour scene, probably Rotterdam. by noted Dutch Impressionist painter Johan Hendrik van Mastenbroek....
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
French 1930s Impressionist Oil on Canvas View of a Vineyard and Cypress Trees.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century oil on canvas view of a vineyard, Cypress trees and a farm beyond by French artist Sylvain Coste. Signed bottom left. Presented in wood and gilt frame.
A charming...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Mid-Century Impressionist Oil on Canvas 'Streets of Montparnasse, Paris'
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid-century Impressionist oil on canvas view of Montparnasse in Paris by Robert Coutelas. Signed bottom right. With dedication and date to the back stretcher where the artist ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Danish Mid Century Colourfield Landscape
Located in Cotignac, FR
Danish mid century Colourfield oil on board painting of a rural landscape by Poul Møller. The painting is initial signed and dated bottom right and there i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Danish Mid Century Colourfield Landscape in Oil, Fiskebodar, The Fishing Huts.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Danish mid century oil on board Colourfield landscape of fishing huts and the seascape beyond by Poul Møller. The painting is initial signed and dated bott...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Surrealist Watercolour and Mixed Media, "Ne Nastupit bui!" (Wouldn't Come!).
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century mixed media surrealist painting by Yuri Ilyich Kononenko. Titled 'Ne Nastupit Bui!' (Wouldn't Come!). Signed with artists symbol bottom left. Fully signed, dated an...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
Large Scale Abstract Geometric Oil on Canvas, Artist's Lay Figures
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large abstract geometric oil on canvas of artist's lay figures intertwined by British artist Derek Carruthers. Unsigned but acquired along with other signed works from the artist's e...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Portrait, Major Alexander Brown in Military Uniform
By Sir David Wilkie
Located in Cotignac, FR
18th Century Military portrait of a young officer in Napoleonic period military dress. The painting is not signed but the subject is Major Alexander Brown. The work is oil on canvas later mounted on board and presented in a fine 'Regence style' carved gilt frame. There are labels to the back referring to the subject, 'Major Brown of Trinity' and a framers trade label from Edinburgh.
A magnificent and imposing portrait of a young military officer in the prime of his life. His red uniform adorned with fine buttons, fringed epaulettes and high gilt collar. His ruddy complexion offset by his stylish hair, a quiff and swept forward to the sides as was the fashion at the time.
Sir David Wilkie RA (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish painter, especially known for his portraits, including formal royal ones, and scenes from his travels to Europe and the Middle East. He painted successfully in a wide variety of genres, including historical scenes. His main base was in London, but he died and was buried at sea, off Gibraltar, returning from his first trip to the Middle East. He was sometimes known as the "people's painter".
He was Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and Queen Victoria. Apart from royal portraits, his best-known painting today is probably The Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch of 1822 in Apsley House.
Sir David Wilkie was actually admitted in 1799 (despite only being 14) through the influence of the Earl of Leven...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Large Scale Abstract Geometric Oil on Canvas, Artist's Lay Figures at Play.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large abstract geometric oil on canvas of artist's lay figures at play by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed and dated 2004-5 to the reverse. Presented in black textured frame.
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Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Realist Portrait, Mid-Century Oil On Card, The Babushka.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century realist oil on card of a peasant woman, dated 1963 to the reverse. Artist unknown. Presented in gilt and painted wood frame under glass.
A charming, grounded painting of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Large Scale Surrealist Oil on Canvas, 'At the Watering Hole'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large late 20th century oil on canvas of animals at the watering hole by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed to the bottom right.
A magical, highly colourful and energetic paint...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Expressionist Landscape, The Abri at L'Olivette, Cap d'Antibes
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French Expressionist oil on canvas landscape of countryside at L'Olivette, Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera, by Germain Bonel. The painting is signed bottom right and signed, dated and titled to the back of the canvas.
A strong and impactful composition of the trees and forest leading down to the sea wall and then the Mediterranean beyond at the Port (or 'Abri' as it is also known) of l'Olivette on the west coast of Cap d'Antibes, the iconic location in the South of France. This former small traditional fishing port from the beginning of the twentieth century is now converted into a picturesque little marina on Cap d'Antibes, with its rocky cove, its beach, its pine forest, its umbrella pines, olive trees, fig trees, and agaves and its famous 'Villa Aujourd'hui' a modernist residence built by American architect Barry Dierks (1899-1960) in 1938 for socialite Mrs. Audrey Chadwick. L'Olivette has a privileged panoramic view of the Gulf of Juan, and the coastal shores of Cap d'Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, Golfe-Juan, and the Pointe Croisette of Cannes.
Germain Bonel (5 August 1913 – 2002) was a French painter of Catalan origin. From 1967 to 1983, he was a professor of drawing and painting at the Perpignan School of Fine Arts. From 1969 to 1978, he also taught art in the schools of Saint-Cyprien-village and Saint-Cyprien-Plage.
Germain Bonel's painting is both expressionist and decorative. Georges-Henry Gourrier said of him: "Germain Bonel's painting expresses [quite naturally] the singular beauty of forms, the radiant force of colour, the deepening of matter and the tenderness of the things of life. His work appears to be a painting of plenitude."
From 1941 to 1945, Germain Bonel studied drawing at the Municipal School of Fine Arts in Perpignan. He won first prize in 1945. Out of competition, he continued his studies at the same school from 1945 to 1948 and he regularly exhibited his works at the annual exhibition held at the Salle Arago in Perpignan.
Germain Bonel met François Desnoyer in 1950 and introduced him to the Catalan artistic milieu.
He was admitted to the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1951 and exhibited until 1961, when he became a member of the salon. As early as 1951 a commentary said, "with the canvas hanging...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Scale Surrealist Oil on Canvas, 'Noah's Ark and the Animals'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Very large scale late 20th century oil on canvas of Noah's Ark and the Animals by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed to the bottom right.
A magical, highly colourful and energe...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large Expressionist Oil on Canvas, Apartment Interior and Cityscape.
By Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid century Expressionist oil on canvas of a man, child and cat in an interior with a cityscape beyond. The work is not signed but there are various notations to the top rear stret...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Still Life with Fish, 'Bouillabaisse, La Dourade'
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French oil on canvas study of a fish, a dorade, by French artist Marie Boucher. The painting is signed bottom right and signed titled and dated to the rear of the canvas.
A charmi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Christmas Winter Wonderland, Barbizon School Snowscape.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An oil on panel view of a winter snow scene by Boggio. The painting is signed bottom right.
A charming view of a snow scene, a river running under a bridge heavy with snow. A Christ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Sailing Away
Located in Cotignac, FR
An oil on panel idyllic seascape by Boggio. The painting is signed bottom right.
An idealised seascape scene, boats under sail on a tranquil sea moving away from a rocky outcrop wit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Symbolist Portrait of a Woman in an Interior, 'Before the Mirror'
Located in Cotignac, FR
Art Nouveau coloured drawing of a young lady beauty before a mirror by Edmon Aman-Jean. The work is signed in pencil bottom left and presented in a plain wood frame with mount, under...
Category
Late 19th Century Symbolist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Crayon, Color Pencil
Expressionist Female Nude Portrait, 'The Green Curtain' Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Expressionist female nude portrait by noted Scottish artist Douglas Thomson. The painting is signed bottom left and signed and titled to the back of the canvas. There is an original exhibition title and price label to the frame. Presented in original plain wood frame.
A colourful and striking portrait of a female nude. Her rich red hair falling over her shoulders, her pose calm as she stares out from the canvas in a wistful way, her mouth set. Thomson has created flesh tones, wonderful contrast of colours between the sitter and the background curtain and wall and a texture to the canvas to create added interest. A really interesting and engaging portrait.
Douglas Thomson was born in Greenock in 1955 and after studying at the Glasgow School of Art 1974...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Les Brindilles ( Twigs )
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century oil on board by 20th century artist Ahlan Achoy, signed bottom left.
Ahlan Achoy was known for his figurative art and portraiture often in the cubist style. This colourf...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Impressionist Large Scale Female Nudes in a Landscape, 'L' été a la rivière'
Located in Cotignac, FR
Impressionist oil painting of female nudes cavorting in a river landscape. The painting is signed with initials 'EH' bottom left and dated '66'. It is also initialled and dated to th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fiberboard, Oil
French Impressionist Interior View, Floral Abundance, View From A Window
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist oil on canvas, interior view, plants at a window by June Fortan. The painting is signed bottom right.
A colourful and exuberant interior view of a collection of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pop Art, Frank Zappa
Located in Cotignac, FR
A Pop Art lithograph poster of Frank Zappa, artists proof, signed limited edition by English artist Pete Marsh. The work is signed, dated, annotated and numbered in pencil by the art...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Printer's Ink, Paper
Abstract Expressionist, Art Brut Lithograph, 'A Day Out'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract Expressionist lithograph on BFK Rives paper of a late 20th century work by French artist Eliane Larus.
A lively and highly colourful lithograph...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Expressionist Engraving on Handmade Paper, 'Profile and Letters'.
By James Coignard
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century carborundum engraving on handmade paper by French artist, James Coignard.
In the late 1960s, Coignard exploited in particular the artistic medium of etching in car...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Engraving
Modernist Watercolour On Paper, Trees At Buckfast Abbey
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 1960s work on paper of a group of trees at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England, by Alban Atkins. Signed bottom left, titled and dated to the reverse. There is also a collection or accession number to the backboard.
Atkins has captured the sculptural nature of the tree trunks as they have grown in the landscape giving the work a feeling of living, writhing things as well as an abstract feel in the composition.
Atkins was one of the group of important artists chosen and commissioned by Sir Kenneth Clark...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pastel, Ink
L'Usine, The Factory.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century watercolour on paper of a factory in a landscape by English artist E Corvin-Pearson. The painting is signed bottom right and marked ' 3 Guineas' to the backboard.
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Category
Early 20th Century Cubist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Blue Period, Parasols, The Beach, Côté d'Azur.
By Auguste Chabaud
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century French pastel drawing of a beach scene in the South of France by noted fauvist artist Auguste Chabaud. Carrying the stamped atelier signature, possibly from his 'Blue Period'.
Auguste CHABAUD was born in Nîmes on October 3, 1882.
At the age of fourteen Chabaud joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Avignon. In 1899 he went to Paris to continue his artistic training at the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. There he met Henri Matisse and André Derain. In 1900 he returned to his parents' vineyard in southern France briefly before returning to Paris.
In 1901, he was forced to leave Paris again in order to secure his livelihood. He worked on a ship and got to know the West African coast. Upon his return in 1907 and in the following years, he became acquainted with and captured in his paintings the excitement of the Parisian nightlife. In the Paris neighbourhood Montmartre, where he had his studio, he painted various scenes of Parisian life and cafe society.
At the same time, he continued to paint Provence and took part in the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne, where he exhibited with the Fauves.
Chabaud's Cubist phase began in 1911, where he also began sculpting. In the following years he had many exhibitions, including 1913 in New York, where his works were exhibited alongside those of artists such as Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and Picasso.
After his return from the first World War Chabaud settled down in Graveson. From 1920 he had his "blue period". He used the Prussian Blue as the only colour in his works. From then, he focused exclusively on the south of France. He painted scenes of rural life, the farmers, and the hills and trails of the Alpilles.
A very important retrospective exhibition of his work took place in Paris in 1952, which gave him the opportunity to return to Paris, which he had left in 1914. Another retrospective exhibition in Paris took place in 1965 commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death.
He died in 1955 in Graveson.
In 1966, he was represented at the exhibition “Le Fauvisme français et les débuts de l’impressionnisme Allemand” (French Fauvism...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Pastel
House and Garden, Cubist Homage a Matisse
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century cubist watercolour on paper of a garden and house by Corvin-Pearson. Signed bottom left, annotated and dated top right, further annotations with mention of Matisse...
Category
Early 20th Century Cubist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Paper
Chanterelles, La Récolte de l'Automne, Autumn Harvest
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid century still life, oil on canvas, showing chanterelle mushrooms and the delights of an autumn harvest by Claude Le Baube. Signed to the fron...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Odalisque, Watercolour of a Female Nude
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th Century watercolour on paper of a naked female figure before an open window. Signed bottom right but as yet not deciphered. Presented in carved, white painted wood frame.
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Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Monumental Surrealist Pastel, Of Course We Evolve But Does Anything Ever Change?
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist, figurative large scale pastel of a deconstructed head and other elements by Gordon Muir. With original exhibition title label. Presented in fine silvered wood and fabric custom frame, under glass.
A magnificent and truly monumental work of a 'deconstructed' head and three other triptych elements. Influenced by the paintings of Francis Bacon and Salvador Dali the work is intriguing and arresting at the same time. We can see how Muir gained such success later for his sculptural pieces as he is even in this work thinking in three dimensions. On closer inspection the details reveal themselves, the eyeball reminiscent of the shell of a horse chestnut, the furry surface to the tongue all in soft pastel shades. The three upper elements, in monochrome revealing the development of man. A really intriguing and strong painting that would grace any interior and be the talking point of any collection.
It is very unusual to find a pastel of these proportions. The medium itself gives the work a softness creating an intriguing juxtaposition to the subject itself.
Sculptor, born in Hawick, Gordon Muir was educated at art colleges in London, Scotland and the University of New Mexico, after which he spent time working with woodblock artists in Japan. He has more recently concentrated his artistic endeavours on sculpture, much of this in collaboration with the Paul Hogarth...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Expressionist Mid-Century Still Life of Flowers in a Vase.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century still life pastel on paper of a vase with flowers by French artist Andrée Ruy Petroff. Signed bottom right.
An enchanting and energetic rendering in pastel of poppies a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Carbon Pencil
Fauvist Mid Century Sea Landscape, La Barque Piraillan Basin d'Arcachon
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century Fauvist view of a port and seascape by Verquin Henri. Signed bottom right, titled, located and signed to the backboard. Presented in period mid century gilt wood and clot...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor
Impressionist Seascape of Cap Corse and The Ligurian Sea
Located in Cotignac, FR
A colourful Impressionist seascape of Cap Corse by C Benali. The painting is signed bottom right and a location, Grischoni, Cap Corse, to the backboard. Presented in patinated silver...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Olive Grove and Poppies, Contemporary Impressionist Pastel on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A contemporary Impressionist pastel on paper by British artist Miranda McCarthy. Signed to the bottom right and presented in a black case frame.
The softness of pastel as a medium ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Large Expressionist Portrait, Follower of Max Beckmann, Glasgow School
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large Glasgow School Max Beckmann influenced oil on canvas portrait by Scottish artist Stuart Mackenzie. The painting is signed and dated to the rea...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressionist Lakeside River Scene
Located in Cotignac, FR
Impressionist painting of a lake and the surrounding landscape by Franciosi. Signed and dated bottom right. Presented in patinated and giltwood frame with card mount under glass.
A ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Boats in Harbour, Looking out to the Sea, Colourful French Watercolour, The Port
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour view of boats in a port, looking out to sea, by French Painter Jean-Paul Claveau. The painting is signed and dated bottom left and presented in painted wood frame, with c...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Mid Century Impressionist Landscape, 'Les Baux de Provence'
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French impressionist oil on canvas view of Les Baux de Provence by Jean-Claude Imbert. The painting is signed top right and titled to the rear stretchers. Presented in a patinated ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Watercolour, The River Seine and the Barges of Paris
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid century watercolour on paper view of the river Seine in Paris.
A very charming watercolour of life on the river Seine. The barges or 'peniches' waiting to be loaded along...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Terranque", Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary abstract expressionist acrylic on canvas of a Provençal landscape by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed and dated to the b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary French Fauvist Impressionist Landscape, Le Crépuscule. Pastel.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary Fauvist Impressionist pastel of colourful landscape by Belgian artist Francis Besson. Signed to the very bottom right and presented in a custom white wood and patinated frame.
A magnificent colourscape of reds, russets, blues, oranges and black. Whirls of colour shape this gorgeously sumptuous pastel of a landscape. The contrast between colour, light and shade make for a wonderfully impactful composition. The use of pastel softens the whole effect and gives an impressionistic feeling.
Besson was born in Dundee (Scotland) in 1943 however as a young child moved to Belgium where he later became famous as an actor. His family kept a second home in Cotignac in Provence which he visited often until finally going to live there himself in the early 2000s.
Francis Besson now lives and works in the beautiful village of Cotignac in Provence in the south of France. His often impressionistic almost pointillist work is inspired by the nature he sees around him in this lovely part of the world. The intensity of the light , the rocks and forests of Provence all feature in his paintings.
He is known for both landscapes and abstract works and has often collaborated with other local artists.
Le crépuscule...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Large French Expressionist View, a Provencal Street Scene, The Colonnades.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large late 20th Century Expressionist oil on canvas by French artist Jean Arène (1929 - 2020), depicting a Provençal, South of France architectural street scene. The canvas is signed...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist View of Boats in a Port, 'The Seine at Rouen'. Oil on Wood.
By Karnec Jean Etienne
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 19th century Impressionist oil, view of boats in a port, possibly Rouen, by Jean Etienne Karnec. Signed bottom left. Painted on fine chamfered hardwood panel with a trade stamp ...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mid-Century Nude Male Acephale Sang de Boeuf Ceramic Sculpture with Marble Base.
By Franta (Frantisek Merte)
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century ceramic figure of a man in Sang de Boeuf, oxblood red, glaze presented on a metal 'tige' and marble base.
The sculpture is not signed but was purchased from ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble
French Impressionist Still Life, Oil on Board, 'Flowers and Faïance'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century Impressionist still life of flowers in a Faïance tureen. Signed bottom right by the artist but as yet undeciphered. Presented in a period painted wooden frame.
A ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large Canvas Painting, a Group of Geese in a Spring Meadow 'The Gaggle of Geese'
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large Modern French acrylic on canvas of a 'gaggle' of geese by Jean-Jacques Marais. Signed and dated bottom left.
A bright and joyful painting of a group of geese (a gaggle) enjoyi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
French Impressionist Portrait Drawing, 'The Art Lesson'
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil study portrait drawing of a child painting at an easel by French artist Charles-Jean Agard. The work is signed bottom left and presented in a carved wood and gilt frame with mount under glass.
A very charming pencil study of a child sitting at an easel. Agard has beautifully captured the head and face in full, with the light and shade, the rest of the body and surroundings are in sketch form, the contrast between the two making for a very successful composition beautifully capturing the intensity of the sitter.
Charles Agard...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Handmade Paper
French Art Brut Abstract Expressionist Acrylic on Canvas, 'Qui Dit Mieux'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large outsider art abstract expressionist acrylic on canvas by French artist Serge Desfarges. Signed and dated to the bottom left and signed, dated and titled to the reverse. Present...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Statue Songye, Kneeling Male Figure, Democratic Republic of Congo
Located in Cotignac, FR
A Songye Male Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the male figure resting on one knee, with openwork arms and hands resting by the abdomen which contains various charms a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Tribal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
CoBrA, Signed Limited Edition Lithograph, L'épreuve d'Artiste 'Les Amants'
By Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (Corneille)
Located in Cotignac, FR
Signed limited edition lithograph, 'Les Amants', by Belgian/Dutch artist, Corneille. This is the artists own copy, L'épreuve d'artiste, from the edition of 40, Vincenzo Bitetti, Potenza of the rarer monochromatic version. Eau forte and aquatinte on craft paper with white highlights added. It is signed titled and dated in pencil by the artist. Presented in patinated wood frame under glass.
Corneille was the pseudonym of Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, born July 4, 1922 in Liège (Belgium), of Dutch parents, and died in Auvers-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise) September 5, 2010, he was a Dutch painter, engraver, sculptor and ceramist
After attending the School of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, Corneille began exhibiting in 1946, then discovered surrealism. Co-founder in 1948 with Karel Appel, Eugène Brands, Constant Nieuwenhuis, Anton Rooskens and Theo Wolvecamp, of the Experimentele Groep in Holland movement which publishes the journal Reflex, anticipating the magazine Cobra (journal) which would appear the following year in Denmark, Belgium, then in the Netherlands.
He is one of the initiators of Cobra with Karel Appel, Constant Nieuwenhuis, Asger Jorn and Dotremont. This group was soon joined by poets, painters and writers including Jacques Doucet, Pierre Alechinsky, Henry Heerup, Reinhoud, Else Alfelt, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Egill Jacobsen, C.O. Hultén, Anders Osterlind...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Black and White, Lithograph
French Impressionist Oil on Canvas after Cézanne, Le Jardinier, The Gardener
By After Paul Cezanne
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist Oil on Canvas after a painting by Paul Cézanne titled 'Le Jardinier Vallier' (R950, FWN547). The painting is titled and signed 'élève de beaux arts d' Aix' to th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil