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'A Night out at the Cinema'. Italian Mid-Century Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century impressionist oil on board of a cinema forecourt. The artist is unknown but the painting is signed bottom right. Quite likely an Italian artist as the oil painting was fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'Sarabande'. Large Contemporary Expressionist Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large contemporary expressionist oil on cotton canvas of a sunset over a Provençal landscape by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Mort de l'Amour, Series of 8 Erotic Limited-Edition Wood Engravings.
By André Rouveyre
Located in Cotignac, FR
A set of 8 erotic early 20th Century wood engravings on arches paper, a limited edition, number 241 of 1000, by Andre Rouveyre. Produced by Kauffmann on...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe', Hommage to Édouard Manet. Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French oil on board painting of a bucolic picnic in the countryside. Presented in period chip carved wood frame.
The artist has been inspired by the painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet. They have created an intimate scene of four friends sharing a picnic in the countryside. The central character is naked whereas the others are in various stages of undress. The picnic is spread out on a fine white cloth, the wicker picnic basket to one side. A dog looks on from the side-lines hoping for something from the picnic. A very charming and intimate scene colourfully rendered.
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Acrobats at the Circus', Mid 20th Century Vallauris Painting on Ceramic.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century painting on ceramic of two circus acrobats by Italian artist Giovanni Lombardi. The work is painted on 14 ceramic tiles which have been mounted on board, signed bottom left, in original period oak frame.
A wonderful energetic and vibrant work very much in the 1940s 'Modern' style showing a scene of two acrobats practising with a circus tent, carousel, Punch and Judy Show...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Mid-Century Abstract Oil on Canvas. Composition in Blue.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century oil on canvas, composition in blue, by Romanian/French artist Philippe Lepatre. The work is signed LP and dated 1958 to the bottom right.
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Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century 'Composition II', Lyrical French Abstract Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century oil on canvas, " Composition ii " by Romanian/French artist Philippe Lepatre. The work is signed LP and dated Viii 1968 to the bottom righ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Spring'. Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Acrylic in Green on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary abstract expressionist acrylic in green on paper by French artist Christian Manoury. Signed bottom right. Dated 2020 and signed to the r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Mid-Century French Oil on Canvas. 'Hommage to Cézanne', Still Life With Fruit
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century still life oil on canvas by noted French artist Jean Arène. Signed bottom middle, presented in fine wood frame with gilt filet.
A very cha...
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Fishing Boat at Sea, Late Mid-Century Gouache on Paper
Located in Cotignac, FR
French gouache on paper of a boat travelling the seas. The work is unsigned but dated 22/11/70. Presented in simple gilt frame with handcut mount.
A really engaging and powerful painting. The artist has managed to capture the swell of the sea, the movement of the boat listing gently to one side, the slightly rusty hull, the moody sky filled with all the seagulls following behind, which suggests it might be a fishing boat. They have used a limited but strong colour palette, blues, blacks and greys and then just to highlight and catch the eye a splash of green to represent the starboard or right bow light.
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Gouache, Paper
Feeding the Birds. Mid Century Post-Impressionist Gouache on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Post-impressionist gouache on paper by French artist Andrée Ruy Petroff, signed bottom left.
A totally charming painting of a young boy sitting on ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pencil
Romantic French Impressionist River Landscape The Old Bridge 27th September 1914
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century, French, oil on canvas of a romantic river scape with an ancient bridge. The work is dedicated, signed and dated bottom left, but we have not been able to decipher...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid-century Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century abstract expressionist oil on canvas by French artist, André Tardieu, signed and dated 1976 bottom right. Also with signature, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Insouciance', Mid 20th Century Portrait of Max Vigon friend of Jean Cocteau.
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century oil portrait of the actor Max Vigon. The sitter was a friend and collector of the works of Jean Cocteau. By repute this portrait is by Cocteau however it is n...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Mother Nature', Lyrical Surrealist Abstract Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century lyrical surrealist abstract watercolour on paper by French artist Jean Clerté, signed and dated bottom right. Presented in mid-century frame.
Jean Clerté , born in 1930 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe in Vienne, is a French painter, engraver, draftsman, watercolourist and sculptor . This work is a great example of his more humorous and expressive work influenced by Alechinsky from the late 1960s onwards. There is a light playfulness and yet the watercolours are more vivid than his previous palette.
Jean Clerté works in series. His sequential narrations testify both to a youthful spontaneity and to a perfect mastery in the distribution of forms and images on the painted surface. The narration is not only an accumulation of juxtaposed fragments and symbols, it forms a whole, it takes on and gives meaning. In general, we can say of Clerté that he practices an “eco-art” that feeds on primary hungers: the feeling of being united with nature, the vegetable, the mineral, the aquatic. In his colourful canvases, his inks, his boxes, his objects, like a shaman on the path of his dreams, the painter Clerté mounts an assault on beasts and demons, elves and gnomes. From the Poitevin marshes to the tropical forests emerges a fauna caught in the meanders of a design that marvels at the appearance of these grotesque idols.
Jean Clerté began to draw and paint at a very young age, and at the age of 15 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers. Then in 1949, curious about the capital, he moved to Paris. Having very few financial resources, he could not continue his studies at first, worked as a model to survive, and met other artists; he was then admitted to the studio of Ossip Zadkine and, from 1952, he was also able to study engraving at Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter, an English engraver and printer living in Paris associated in the 1930s with surrealism.
At the end of the 1960s, he worked alongside Pierre Alechinsky, founding member of the Cobra movement, engraving Alechinsky's originals, benefiting from his advice, and discovering acrylic as a medium.
From 1976, Jean Clerté became associate professor at Hayter. Clerté had taught previously, in 1971 at the Salzburg Summer University and in 1972 he gave courses at the Paris-Sorbonne University . In 1981, he was appointed professor at the School of Decorative Arts , where he had Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas as a student and, from 1983 to 1988, he was Alechinsky's assistant professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts.
His first works are part of the current of lyrical abstraction, and are nourished by impressions of nature (landscape motifs, e.g. forest fires, waterscapes), then around 1968, encouraged by Alechinsky, he rejects abstraction, and his work becomes more figurative with expressive and humorous elements. From this period his colours are more subdued, often with pastel tones, he works on series. Jean Clerté has created a world in a space where drawing, painting, objects participate in a playful figuration. From his drawings were born sculptures and sometimes mobiles (Le Moulin à dessin). If it is the artist who makes astonishing, polychrome, whimsical “toys”, it is the painter who appeals to adults through his caustic and satirical humour.
His first exhibitions in France took place at the Galerie Massol , then at the Galerie Pascal...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Road, Mid-century Provençal, Fauvist Landscape. Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century oil on board Fauvist view of a road in a landscape, probably near Nice in the South of France and the surrounding countryside, by Hyppolite Roger...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Allez!' At the Match. Toulon Rugby Club. Large Expressionist Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large abstract expressionist oil on canvas of Toulon Rugby Club supporters at a rugby match. Unsigned.
Extremely vibrant and energetic depiction of Toulon ...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20thC Watercolor and Gouache. 'Gentlemen at the Races, Point to Pointing'.
By Sir Alfred James Munnings
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century watercolour of a gentleman on horseback with other riders in the background apparently signed or titled 'Count A de Monthaus'. Signed or titled bottom left. Presented in fine period gilt frame under glass.
The artist has captured a moment of pause, the gentlemen rider in his fine clothes and bowler hat regarding his surroundings as his fellow riders continue the chase behind him, possibly a 'point to point'. Monthaus has captured the stance of the standing horse as well as the movement of the other horses. He has used white to give light and definition to the costume of the rider and the background. A lovely atmospheric and dynamic watercolour very much of its period and in the spirit of equine portraiture made famous by the likes of Sir Alfred Munnings.
Sir Alfred James Munnings, KCVO PRA RI (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache, Pencil
The Harvest, Cherubs Disporting with a Goat, Fine Framed 18th Century Engraving
By Jean Jacques Lagrenée the Younger
Located in Cotignac, FR
Fine 18th century engraving by French artist Jean-Jacques Lagrenée. Presented with hand cut mount and gilt filet in fine wood and gilt 'ribbon and reed' frame.
Very charming renditi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Printer's Ink
Mid 20th Century French Oil on Board. 'The Blue Vase'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century oil on board Fauvist still life, flowers in a vase in an interior scene, by Hyppolite Roger. The painting is signed bottom righ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'The Dancers', French Late Mid Century Gouache on Textured Paper
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late Mid Century French watercolour and Gouache on handmade paper of a pair of dancers by Damien Hermellin. Signed and dated bottom right. Pres...
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
'Sunflowers'. Contemporary Botanical Découpage, Oil and Mixed-media on Board.
By Menno Modderman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Sunflowers. Contemporary botanical mixed-media, decoupage, oil and acrylic on board by Dutch artist Menno Modderman, signed and dated 2022 to the bott...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Board, Newsprint
'Style Moderne', Mid-Century Abstract Geometric, Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th century modern abstract oil on canvas attributed to French artist Norbert Palmade. The painting is not signed but was bought from his atelier and with a collection of his paintings and is therefore attributed to him.
A highly colourful, energetic and impactful painting. The paint is very thickly applied in parts and is therefore also somewhat sculptural as a piece of art. Sand has been added to the paint to give the image great texture. A joyful painting to brighten any room.
Norbert Palmade spent much of his early years living in Morocco. He arrived there in 1930 at the age of two and stayed until 1947 when he returned home to France.
He finished his schooling in Hyères in the south of France, then travelled up to Paris to study architecture. There aged 25 he set up a public works business and worked as an architect right up until his retirement in 1991.
Throughout this journey Palmade never stopped painting, at first in watercolours. He had always drawn, then moved on to gouache, oil and finally in the last twenty years, acrylic. The latter suited his rapid handling of paint well.
He says of himself that he had no particular speciality. He would paint whatever gave him pleasure, although a large part of his heart belonged to those early years in Morocco and he painted many a canvas with subjects from this country.
He took part in exhibitions in a number of towns near the south coast of France including, Sanary, Le Pradet and Ollioules. He was also the guest of honour at the Academy of the Var.
Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Although the genre was popularized by avant-garde artists in the early twentieth century, similar motifs have been used in art since ancient times. Sonia and Robert Delauney...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Rectifie', Style Moderne, Abstract Geometric, Impasto Technique Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
20th century modern abstract oil on canvas titled 'Rectifie', attributed to French artist Norbert Palmade. The painting is not signed but was bought from his atelier and with a collection of his paintings and is therefore attributed to him. The work is titled and dated to the rear stretcher.
A highly colourful, energetic and impactful painting. The painting is very thickly applied in an impasto technique in parts and is therefore also somewhat sculptural as a piece of art. Sand has been added to the paint to give the image great texture. A strong and impactful painting, a statement piece in any room.
Norbert Palmade spent much of his early years living in Morocco. He arrived there in 1930 at the age of two and stayed until 1947 when he returned home to France.
He finished his schooling in Hyères in the south of France, then travelled up to Paris to study architecture, though he always yearned to return to the South of France. In Paris, aged 25, he set up a public works business and worked as an architect right up until his retirement in 1991.
Throughout this journey Palmade never stopped painting, at first in watercolours. He had always drawn, then moved on to gouache, oil and finally in the last twenty years, acrylic. The latter suited his rapid handling of paint well.
He says of himself that he had no particular speciality. He would paint whatever gave him pleasure, although a large part of his heart belonged to those early years in Morocco and he painted many a canvas with subjects from this country.
He took part in exhibitions in a number of towns near the south coast of France including, Sanary, Le Pradet and Ollioules. He was also the guest of honour at the Academy of the Var.
Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Although the genre was popularized by avant-garde artists in the early twentieth century, similar motifs have been used in art since ancient times. Sonia and Robert Delauney...
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Naughty Pusscats!'. Hommage to Matisse, Oil on Canvas.
By Maurice Delavier
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century oil on canvas of an interior scene with cats and fish by French artist Maurice Delavier, signed and dated (November '82) to the bottom r...
Category
1980s Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Eryngium'. Contemporary Botanical Oil and Mixed-media on Board.
By Menno Modderman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Eryngium. Contemporary botanical mixed-media, oil and acrylic on board by Dutch artist Menno Modderman, signed and dated 2022 to the bottom right.
Wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Board
'Dandelion Clocks'. Contemporary Botanical Oil and Mixed-media on Board.
By Menno Modderman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Dandelion clocks. Contemporary botanical mixed-media, oil and acrylic on board by Dutch artist Menno Modderman, signed and dated 2022 to the bottom le...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Board
'Cora'. Contemporary Portrait in Oil on Linen Covered Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A contemporary oil on linen board portrait of Cora, part of a series of portraits: 'Portrait in Landscape' by the Dutch artist Bernadette 'Berna' Van Baarsen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Linen
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Gouache on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Lyrical abstract expressionist gouache on paper by French artist Michel Loiseau. Signed bottom right.
Michel Loiseau-Rizzo, born in 1937 is an illust...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Abstract Expressionist Outsider Art, Oil Pastel on Black Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract expressionist, pastel on black paper by English artist John McQuirk. Signed bottom right.
McQuirk's work is an example of outsider art or art brut.
Born in 1933, the arti...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Expressionist Graffiti, Large Scale, Street Art Drip Painting, J'Adore
Located in Cotignac, FR
French early 21st Century Graffiti, street art, 'drip' painting on paper by Jonas “SUN7” Bournat. The work is signed and titled to the backboard. Presented in fine wood, glass and cl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Thistles. Contemporary Botanical Oil, Acrylic and Mixed-media on Board.
By Menno Modderman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary botanical mixed-media, oil and acrylic on board by Dutch artist Menno Modderman, signed and dated 2022 to the bottom right.
Working for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Board, Magazine Paper
Contemporary Still-life. Oil, Acrylic and Mixed-media on Wood Panels
By Menno Modderman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary still-life mixed-media, oil and acrylic on board by Dutch artist Menno Modderman, signed and dated 2022 to the bottom left.
Working for several years now as an artist ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Magazine Paper
Mid-Century Tablescape in Orange. Oil on Canvas on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century tablescape in orange, oil on canvas on board, presented in a custom built red wooden caisse, by Italian artist Matilde Sacchi.
Sacchi is a 20th century artist known for ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Canvas
Abstract Expressionist CoBrA Style Figure. Chalk on Card.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract expressionist CoBrA style chalk on paper of a human figure attributed to French artist, A Nuchy. The work is unsigned but was acquired along with ...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Cardboard
Abstract Expressionist CoBrA Style Anthropomorphic Bird. Chalk on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract expressionist CoBrA style chalk on paper of an imaginary bird by French artist, A Nuchy. Signed to the bottom right.
Highly colourful and inventi...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Magnolia. Contemporary Botanical Oil, Acrylic and Mixed-media on Board.
By Menno Modderman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary botanical mixed-media, oil and acrylic on board by Dutch artist Menno Modderman, signed and dated 2022 to the bottom left.
Working for several years now as an artist i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Board, Magazine Paper
Cotton Ball. Contemporary Botanical Oil, Acrylic and Découpage on Board.
By Menno Modderman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary botanical mixed-media, oil and acrylic on board by Dutch artist Menno Modderman, signed and dated 2022 to the bottom right.
Working for several years now as an artist ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Board, Magazine Paper
Modern Mid-Century Odalisque, Reclining Female Nude.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid 20th century modern work on paper of a female nude by Andre Petroff. Signed with monogram bottom right, presented under glass in plain red painted ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache
Gomphrena. Botanical Study, Découpage, Acrylic, Oil and Mixed-media on Board.
By Menno Modderman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary botanical study, découpage, mixed-media, oil and acrylic on board by Dutch artist Menno Modderman, signed and dated 2022 to the bottom le...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Board, Magazine Paper
Poppy Heads. Contemporary Botanical Study Oil, Acrylic and Mixed-media on Board.
By Menno Modderman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary botanical mixed-media study, découpage, oil and acrylic on board by Dutch artist Menno Modderman, signed and dated 2022 to the bottom lef...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Board, Magazine Paper
Late 20th Century Senegalese Abstract Geometric Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract geometric futuristic cityscape in acrylic on canvas by Senegalese artist Amadou Cissé Dia. Signed bottom left.
An arresting cityscape in bright colours. Geometric patterns since early Islamic times to connect spirituality with science. This is exactly what Cisse Dia, as a utopian artist, does here in creating wonderful futuristic cities...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Senegalese Abstract Expressionist Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract expressionist acrylic on canvas by Senegalese artist Amadou Kré M'Baye. Signed bottom right.
An excellent example of his abstract expressionist phase which would date the ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Senegalese Couple. Large Colourful African Acrylic Painting on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large expressionist acrylic on canvas of a 'Senegalese Couple' by Senegalese artist Amadou Kré M'Baye. Signed bottom right and dated bottom left.
An arresting and highly coloured do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Etude pour 'Le Trio'. French Cubist Acrylic on Paper on Card.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Cubist acrylic on paper on card by French artist Eliane Versini , signed, dated and titled 'Etude pour le Trio' to the front bottom right and the same to the bottom right reverse.
H...
Category
Late 20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Cardboard
'Première Abstraction'. French Color Field Acrylic on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract colour field acrylic on paper painting titled 'Première Abstraction'by French artist Véronique Simonet. Signed, dated and titled to the reverse.
A wonderfully peaceful and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
'Berglandschap', Mid 19thC Oil on Canvas of a Mountain Valley in Switzerland.
By Alexandre Calame
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century oil on canvas view of a Swiss valley and mountainscape by Alexander Calame. The painting is signed bottom left. The canvas is on a fine stretcher with 'keys'. The painting has been in a private collection in the North of France since the early 20th Century. The painting is currently framed but needs extensive restoration, the frame can be included at no additional cost if required.
A very beautiful and expert rendition of one of Calame's iconic Swiss mountain views. Atmospheric view of light and shade, a moody sky with the sun just breaking through over a small mountain cottage retreat.
Alex Calame was born in Corsier-sur-Vevey, today a part of Vevey, Switzerland. He was the son of a skillful marble worker in Vevey, but because his father lost the family fortune, Calame could not concentrate on art, but rather he was forced to work in a bank from the age of 15. When his father fell from a building and then died, it was up to the young Calame to provide for his mother.
In his spare time he began to practice drawing small views of Switzerland. In 1829 he met his patron, the banker Diodati, who made it possible for him to study under landscape painter François Diday. After a few months he decided to devote himself fully to art.
In 1835 he began exhibiting his Swiss-Alps and forest paintings in Paris and Berlin. He became well known, especially in Germany. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. In 1842 he went to Paris and displayed his works Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau, the Brienzersee, the Monte Rosa and Mont Cervin.
He taught in Geneva, where Adolf Mosengel was one of his pupils as were some of the children of the Russian Imperial family of Nicholas I.
Alexandre Calame...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Femme Assise'. Large Mixed-media Montage on Board.
By Armand Avril
Located in Cotignac, FR
Imposing and very large scale mixed media 'assemblage' by French artist Armand Avril. The work includes the French tricolour flag colours, his symbolic cat sculptures and a highly colourful geometric image of the artist's mother sitting in a chair. The work is signed and dated to the reverse and comes with a certificate of authenticity from the gallery.
This montage fully demonstrates Avril's geometric period whilst also expressing the humour and joy that he puts into all his work. A very strong sculptural image and a feast for the eyes in searching for and recognising the everyday objects used in making this piece come alive. This montage is made from wood pieces, plywood, oil paint, acrylic, bottle top and nails . The more sculpted areas of the piece stand out up to 3cm from the frame.
Armand Avril was born in 1926 in Lyon. His father, Marcel Avril was a painter and collector of African art.
At 16 Armand became an apprentice shepherd in Provence. Avril could always be seen equipped with a sketchbook and a book on the history of art whilst tending his flock.
It was not until the age of 30, in 1956, that Armand embarked on painting as an autodidact, influenced by Raoul Dufy, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse and the Lyonnaise School of Painting. He exhibited for the first time in 1957.
In 1960, he left for a one-year trip to Africa. There he met the painter Jean Arène who introduced him to the village of Cotignac in the Var and to Louis Pons...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Plywood, Acrylic, Board
19th Century Impressionist Pastel, 'La Plage, Cote d'Azur, South of France'.
By Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th century Impressionist view, in pastel, in the style of Turner, of a beach, 'La Plage', in South of France, by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
'Kitchen Shelves'. Contemporary Scottish Surrealist Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist contemporary acrylic on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W.
This piece is wonderfully colourful, playful and is typical of his witty sense of humour. Docherty likes to tease us visually and asks questions and presents conundrums to the viewer.
Frank McLean Docherty was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1942. He became a student at Glasgow School of Art in 1960 and graduated from the Department of Printed Textiles in 1964. He taught in a secondary school in the East End of Glasgow for two years, thereafter departing to work in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland as a textile designer (Marks & Spencer, Heals and Liberty of London). He was also an illustrator for a range of newspapers and an Art Director of magazines.
In 1973, he was appointed Principal Teacher of Art in a Scottish High School and in 1978 was honoured by the Queen when he was appointed Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (R.S.W.) He left education in 1994. Since that time he has developed a vision which is quite unique in Scottish Art.
Bank Managers, toucans, lighthouses, penguins, bowler hats, Frank Docherty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Breakfast'. Contemporary Scottish Surrealist Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist contemporary tablescape, acrylic on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W. Signed and dated bottom left.
This piece is wonder...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Petit Déjeuner'. Contemporary Scottish Surrealist Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist contemporary tablescape, acrylic on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W. Signed and dated bottom left, presented in custom wood frame.
This piece is wonderfully colourful, playful and is typical of his witty sense of humour. Docherty likes to tease us visually and asks questions and presents conundrums to the viewer.
Frank McLean Docherty was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1942. He became a student at Glasgow School of Art in 1960 and graduated from the Department of Printed Textiles in 1964. He taught in a secondary school in the East End of Glasgow for two years, thereafter departing to work in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland as a textile designer (Marks & Spencer, Heals and Liberty of London). He was also an illustrator for a range of newspapers and an Art Director of magazines.
In 1973, he was appointed Principal Teacher of Art in a Scottish High School and in 1978 was honoured by the Queen when he was appointed Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (R.S.W.) He left education in 1994. Since that time he has developed a vision which is quite unique in Scottish Art.
Bank Managers, toucans, lighthouses, penguins, bowler hats, Frank Docherty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Impressionist View of Villefranche, South of France, in the style of Turner.
By Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th century Impressionist view, in pastel, chalk and crayon, in the style of Turner, of Villefranche, South of France by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
19th Century Grand Tour Impressionist View of Santo Stephano, Liguria, Italy.
By Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th century Impressionist view, in pastel, chalk and crayon, in the style of Turner, of Santo Stephano, Imperia, Italy by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
Pastel & Pencil on Paper.The Chapel Saint Pierre, Villefranche, South of France.
By Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th century pastel drawing view of the Chapel Saint Pierre at Villefranche, with the harbour beyond, by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
19th Century Pastel & Pencil on Paper. The Royal Palace, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
By Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th century pastel drawing view of the Royal Palace, Monte Carlo, Monaco by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon. The work is titl...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
The Countryside and Mediterranean Sea at Beaulieu, Cote d'Azur, South of France.
By Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th century Impressionist view, in watercolour, in the style of Turner, of Beaulieu, South of France, by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
Abstract Expressionist Mixed Technique laid on Canvas. 'The Scream'.
By Daniel Klein
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century abstract expressionist mixed media on canvas by French artist Daniel Klein. Signed D. Klein bottom left.
Daniel Klein, a French painter, born in 1946, began his ca...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Abstract Expressionist Mixed Technique laid on Canvas. 'Univers Uni'.
By Daniel Klein
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract Expressionist mixed media on canvas by French artist Daniel Klein. Signed label to the reverse.
Daniel Klein, a French painter, born in 1946, began his career in advertisin...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
'A Very Bad Seagull', Contemporary Oil and acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist contemporary oil and acrylic on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W, signed and dated bottom left and signed and titled 'A Ve...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
