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Mid Century Expressionist Rural Landscape, The Bastide at Signes, Oil on Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid Century Expressionist oil on canvas Provencal landscape of Signes, South of France, by Olympe Silvy. Signed bottom right, annotated, titled and dated to the back stretcher...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Expressionist Gouache and Watercolour Study for 'Alexander and His Army'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French late 20th century watercolour and gouache study for the series 'Alexander and His Army' by Stephane Lovighi-Bourgogne. Presented in plain wood frame.
A strong and forceful de...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
French Mid-C Impressionist View. 'Colourful Early Autumn Leaves'. Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist oil on canvas view of trees on a riverbank in all their colourful autumn glory by Francoise Hinard. Initialled bottom right.
Hin...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mid-Century Futuristic French Cubist Cityscape. Oil and Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century cubist oil and acrylic futuristic cityscape on canvas. Signed bottom right, artist unknown.
Highly colourful and well-composed interpretation of a cityscape of the futur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Canvas
Large Surrealist Scottish Oil on Canvas. 'She brought Colour into his Life'.
By Frank Docherty
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large surrealist contemporary oil on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W, signed and dated bottom left and signed and titled 'She brought Colour into his Life' to the reverse.
This piece whilst wonderfully colourful, playful and erotic is typical of the witty sense of humour this artist displays in all his work. 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 Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Persephone, 19th Century Classical French Academy Drawing, Chalk and Pencil.
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th Century French Academy drawing of a classical maiden, signed Xavier Rendeley bottom right, numbered and dated 2nd April 1883. Presented in ...
Category
1880s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
La Serenissima, Mid-Century Acrylic on Board, Venetian Gondolas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century acrylic on board of Venetian gondolas in harbour signed L Mariani, bottom right.
This is a jewel of a painting. Its bright, joyful and intense c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Contemporary Aboriginal Inspired Abstract. Acrylic on Linen on Card.
By Menno Modderman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary Aboriginal inspired abstract by Menno Modderman, a Dutch artist painting in the south of France, signed and dated to the bottom on the pas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Cardboard
Mid-Century Still Life Oil on Canvas of Chrysanthemums in Copper Vase.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century still life of chrysanthemums in copper vase, oil on canvas signed R Colao bottom left.
A wonderfully colourful and vibrant still life, beautifully...
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Aboriginal Inspired Abstract. Acrylic on Linen on Card.
By Menno Modderman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary Aboriginal inspired abstract by Menno Modderman, a Dutch artist painting in the south of France, signed and dated to the bottom on the passepartout.
Working for several...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Cardboard
Early 20th Century Folk Art, Double-Sided Fairground Advertising, Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century French folk art oil on canvas, advertising M. Joquelet the dentist and Mme Irma the snake charmer. A wonderful piece of social history.
At the turn of the century...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood, Canvas
Contemporary Aboriginal Inspired Abstract. Acrylic on Linen on Card.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary Aboriginal inspired abstract expressionist painting by Menno Modderman, a Dutch artist painting in the south of France, signed and dated 2020 to the bottom on the passep...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard, Linen
French 1930s Art Deco Society Portrait, Lady with a Diamond Earring.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Art Deco, oil on canvas, society female portrait by Dembinkski (probably Anton J.) Signed, dated and located (Paris) bottom left. In later wood and gilt frame.
A charming and...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid-Century Oil on Canvas. Harbour scene. 'Farewell to the Fishermen'..
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th century oil on canvas of a crowded harbour scene, showing the local fisherman or sailors saying farewell to their families before going to sea. The painting is signed bottom right but the artist remains as yet unidentified.
A colourful yet slightly brooding and dreamlike painting. The figures are faceless and the shapes loose and undefined reminiscent of the works by Balthus who in turn was influenced by LS Lowry and his scenes of industrial districts. The colours are deep and glowing and the shapes of the figures are rounded giving a sense of warmth and evoking the quality of light seen at either dawn or dusk.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery.
Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England in the mid-20th century. He developed a distinctive style of painting and is best known for his urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as "matchstick men".
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Character Portrait. 'The Cellist. Allegro!' Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid to late 20th century oil on board of a cellist by J. Tempier, signed bottom left and to the reverse with a reference to 78, quite probably the date of the painting and possibly titled 'Allegro' as noted to the reverse.
An extremely lively and colourful representation of this cellist at play. The quick and incisive brushstrokes give great energy to the painting. The expression of concentration on the cellist...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
French Mid 19th Century Portrait of an Italian Brigand. Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century oil on canvas portrait of an Italian brigand, unsigned, in painted wood and gilt frame.
The painting is a fine and fascinating rendition with plenty of wonderful character and detail to the costume, accessories, landscape and seascape. Very atmospheric and imposing much like the character it portrays.
There is a trade stamp to the back of the canvas for the Paris firm of Susse Freres. The canvas is on a fine quality stretcher with 'keys'. There is an artist's name or title written on the top of the rear stretcher (see photo).
Bands of brigands who populated the hills of southern Italy were steady fodder for the Romantic imagination, and their exploits were reported both factually, fancifully and artistically
The painting dates from a period when France, under its then leader Napoleon III, was involved in the conflicts in the Italian states and the unification and eventual creation of the nation of Italy.
An earlier and similar portrait exists of the infamous brigand Mazzocchi by Achille-Etna Michallony .
Léon Cogniet...
Category
1860s Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
French Mid 20th Century Watercolour, 'Le Hameau et la Bastide'.
By Yves Brayer
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century gouache on paper of a Provençal village or 'hameau' and a 'bastide' or manor house in the landscape signed or titled 'Bodol' and dated bottom right.
The style and c...
Category
1950s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Early 20th Century French Impressionist Landscape, 'On the Banks of the Seine'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century romantic oil on canvas of the banks of the river Seine around Paris presented in a carved period gilt frame.
In all likelihood painted 'en plein air' in autumn or winter the painting has the feeling of some of the impressionists of the late 19th century. See Claude Monet and his 'Les Bords de la Seine à Argenteuil', Alfred Sisley's views of the Seine from the 1870's or Gustave...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Expressionist Acrylic. 'View Through the Bridge'.
By Armand Avril
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century expressionist oil/acrylic on paper by French artist Armand Avril. Signed and dated bottom right.
The painting depicts the view through the metal structure of a bri...
Category
1990s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic
Late 20th Century French Expressionist Acrylic. 'Moi: Life, Sex and Mortality'.
By Armand Avril
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century expressionist work on paper by French artist Armand Avril. Signed and dated bottom right.
The painting is full of vibrancy and colour with the depictions and appea...
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Acrylic
1970s Expressionist Acrylic. 'Seated Figure'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An expressionist portrait of a seated figure, acrylic on paper by French artist Alain Caucat. Signed bottom right. Also signed and dated to the back of the framing board. Presented u...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Nude Male Model, Unique Silver Gelatin Print.
By Andy Warhol
Located in Cotignac, FR
Unique Silver Gelatin print from circa 1977 by Andy Warhol.
Andy Warhol carried a camera with him obsessively. Similarly to his tape recorder, he used this technology not only as an...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mid-Century French Expressionist Oil, 'Anniversary Flowers and Champagne'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century Expressionist oil on canvas tablescape of flowers and Champagne.
This wonderfully energetic painting straddles the line between impressionism and expressionism. The form...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Canvas
Late 20th Century French Impressionist Gouache, 'Les Baux de Provence'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century impressionist gouache landscape of "Les Baux de Provence" on paper by French artist Désiré Villain, signed bottom left and to the reverse...
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Board
Late 20th Century French Abstract Expressionist Acrylic on Board. 'Jazz Night'.
By Thierry Miramon
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century abstract expressionist oil on board representation of a lively jazz night by French artist, Thierry Miramon, signed top left and pres...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Tachiste Oil & Acrylic on Canvas. 'Gelb-Rot-Blau-Braun'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A colourful French Tachiste abstract oil on canvas by Antoine Arlandis. Signed bottom right.
Arlandis was born in Valence, Spain, in 1946. His family moved to Algeria but eventually settled in Marseille, France. From an early age Arlandis loved to draw and paint. An autodidact his first formal training came when he worked with Roche a former pupil of Matisse...
Category
1980s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mid-Century Romantic Watercolor on Paper. 'The Valley, Rouen'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid 20th Century watercolour landscape on paper by Roger Tolmer. Signed bottom right. Presented under glass in fine custom giltwood frame with a ha...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Mid Century Abstract Geometric Study In Polymerised Macro-Molecular Paint.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century Abstract in polymerised macro-molecular paint on canvas applied to a painted wooden board by Belgian artist Paul H Saffre. Signed and dated {1963) on the board below the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Board
Late 20th Century Expressionist Oil and Acrylic on Paper. 'Janine, The Muse'.
By Armand Avril
Located in Cotignac, FR
A vibrant colourful French portrait of Janine, muse of the artist Armand Avril. Signed and dated mid right. Presented in new contemporary framing under glass.
Armand Avril (1926) i...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Oil, Acrylic
Large French Society Portrait, by repute, La Comtesse de Blacas, Château d'Ussé
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large scale French society portrait from the 1920s featuring a lady in a 'flapper' dress before a castle and it's garden by Georges Gaudy. Signed bottom left and dated, 1925. The painting is by repute of La Comtesse de Blacas, in front of her home Château d'Ussé. Ussé was the subject of a French railroad poster issued by the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans in the 1920s which may have been designed by Gaudy and this may be where the commission for this painting came about.
Presented in very fine custom carved wood, gilt Florentine frame.
The early 1900s were the zenith of 20th century society portraiture by the likes of Philip de László...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-century French Abstract Surrealist Design for a Sculpture. Acrylic on Paper.
By Guy Benoist
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century design for a sculpture, in acrylic, attributed to French artist and sculptor Guy Benoist. The design is not signed but was bought with other si...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
French 18th Century Pastel Portrait of a Young Lady in Period Costume.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 18th Century French pastel portrait on paper of a young lady in period dress in a 'feigned oval'. In gilt wood frame presented under glass.
Very much of its period and similar ...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
Mermet. Mid-Century Design for a Sculpture. Acrylic and Crayon on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid-century design for a sculpture, signed or titled Mermet bottom left corner. Presented in period metal frame.
A very strong image which is almost certainly a design for a sculpture due to the three dimensional nature of the piece accentuated by the lines of the image extending beyond the subject itself showing the different planes to be worked.
This extremely energetic and forceful application of the crayon and the extension of the lines is highly reminiscent of the work of the expressionist Bernard Buffet who lived and worked in Tourtour in the South of France. The angular features of the figure and the dark intense lines are particularly in line with the style of his work. Expressionism was a form of art less interested in the correct anatomical representation of the subject but more in portraying the feelings and emotions that the subject evoked.
The model appears to be for a sculpture quite possibly inspired by African art as the image is reminiscent of African fetish...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Acrylic
'Suzanne', Large Mid Century French Portrait Drawing by Gourdon
Located in Cotignac, FR
French, Mid Century, pastel and crayon portrait of an elegant young lady by Gourdon. Signed and dated bottom left. Trade label to the back board. Presented in period deep 'tray' frame.
This seems to be an early work by the artist and hence it carries his name rather than his later more distinctive signature 'Aslan'. Alain Gordon was one of two brothers, his sibling Michel also went on to achieve notable success with his distinctive 'comic' style.
Alain Gourdon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Watercolor, Pencil
'War and Peace', Mid-Century Belgian Surrealist Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century Surrealist oil on board depicting War and Peace by Belgian Artist, Willy Smitz. Signed and dated bottom right with his recognisable triangular motif ( initialed WS ), in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Paysage de Neige Dans le Jura, Avec Chevreuil'. Mid 19th Century Oil on Canvas.
By Gustave Courbet
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th century French oil on canvas of a snow scene in the Jura by Gustave Courbet. Signed bottom right in his characteristic 'ox-blood' red.
Our painting is very similar in compo...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Long View to the Sea, Collioure
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sketch drawing on paper by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts. A sketch from his Colliioure series from 1937 or his St Tropez series fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Jardin du Luxembourg
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sketch drawing on paper by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts for his painting Jardin du Luxembourg from 1948 (SK115 Monografie en Oeurvr...
Category
1940s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Landschap te St Tropez, Landscape at St Tropez
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century drawing study on paper of a Provencale landscape by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts. Possibly an atelier sketch for the painting Landschap te St ...
Category
1940s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Mid-century Ink on Paper. 'Jardin du Luxembourg'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century study of a park and garden on paper by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts. A similar sketch to TK 048 in the Monografie en Oeuvrecatalogus. Carrying...
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Horse Drover, 19th Century Austrian School, Oil on Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid 19th Century oil on canvas of horses and their drover. The painting is signed MM, dated 1849 and carries a signature to the stretcher Marie Munch. The painting is presented in ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Aboriginal Inspired Abstract. Acrylic on linen.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary Aboriginal inspired abstract by Menno Modderman, a Dutch artist painting in the south of France, signed and dated to the bottom on the passepartout.
Working for several...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Cardboard
Harvest, The Haystacks, Mid-Century Impressionist Oil on Panel.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century oil on panel by Robert Perniaux , Belgian artist, signed and dated 1952 bottom right.
Robert Perniaux , born in Grez-Doiceau in 1906 and died in 1973, was a Belgian architect, painter, ceramicist and illustrator. He trained from 1923 to 1929 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels.
His work as a ceramicist, illustrator, watercolourist and painter had a characteristic style, which according to Paul Piron was "close to popular art " .
He illustrated many books with his unique style of art.
Robert Perniaux was the husband of the painter Georgette Devroye with whom he came to settle in La Ciotat...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Watercarrier, Orientalist Gouache and Watercolor on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century orientalist watercolour on paper by Aiveill, signed bottom right.
In art history, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Cattle, Goats and Sheep Grazing, Orientalist Gouache and Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century orientalist watercolour of cattle grazing signed Aiveill bottom right.
In art history, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"The Long Walk Home". Orientalist Gouache and Watercolor on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century orientalist watercolour on paper by Aiveill, signed bottom right.
In art history, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Sunshine, The Golden Orb, Large Contemporary Pastel and Mixed Media on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary mixed media and pastel on paper of a golden sun like orb by Belgian artist Francis Besson, signed bottom right. In plain contemporary oak f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Contemporary Belgian Mixed Media Abstract In Blue.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary abstract mixed media on paper by Belgian artist Francis Besson, signed bottom right.
Francis was born in Dundee (Scotland) in 1943 however...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Sandstone
Contemporary Impressionist Acrylic and Pastel. 'Forest In Lilac, Provence'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary mixed medium on paper of a forest scene in Provence, France by Belgian artist Francis Besson, signed bottom right. Presented in oak 'case' ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pastel
Mid Century Italian Tablescape With Red Cloth, 1956, Circle of Giorgio Morandi
By Giorgio Morandi
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century Italian watercolour on paper of a tablescape, signed and dated (1956) bottom right. The artist is currently unknown.
Presented under glass in original, period plain woo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Barcelona Street Scene, Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
1940s Barcelona street scene watercolour on paper by Belgian artist André Pierard, signed and dated bottom right.
André Pierard had a second home near C...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Still Life of Roses in a Vase, Mid-Century French Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century French still life of roses in a vase, oil on canvas by Marseille artist Henri Reboa. The work is signed bottom right and is presented in a gilt...
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Barbizon School Impressionist Lakeside Landscape, Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century impressionist oil on board by Italian artist J. Torrelli.
This painting of a lakeside at dusk, reminiscent of the 'Barbizon School', showcases impressionist painting tec...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Aboriginal-Inspired Abstract Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large Aboriginal-inspired abstract oil on board. We have shown the painting hanging in 'portrait' form but it could also be hung 'landscape'.
This painting shares some of the qualit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Chamonix' Mid-Century Hand Signed Original Lithograph.
By Joan Gardy Artigas
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century original lithograph entitled " Chamonix " hand signed by Joan Gardy Artigas and numbered 12/75 on arches vellum rag paper from the 1966-70 edition. Presented in period 19...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Printer's Ink, Rag Paper, Lithograph
Apples, Hommage to Rousseau, Large, Square, Naive Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large square French fantasy naive oil on canvas by Jean Henry Brossat. Signed to the front and bearing a title in Russian (?) script to the rear. In a plai...
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Hello Hen ! Large Surrealist Contemporary Oil on Canvas.
By Frank Docherty
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large surrealist contemporary oil on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W.
This piece whilst wonderfully colourful, playful and erotic is typical of the witty sense of humour this artist displays in all his work. The title 'Hello Hen !' ( Hen being the scottish slang for 'girl' ) is used playfully as a double-entendre. In the image we see the artist has before him a beautiful naked woman and yet chooses to paint the real hen. Also we notice that the plant's flower heads under the woman are wilting and the artist pictured (a self portrait of Docherty), an older man, suggest that the artist's desires are on the wane. 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 Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset on the Alps
By Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 19th century drawing and crayon view of a sunset over the Alps by Hercules Brabazon Brabazon. Initial signed (HBB) by the artist.
Brabazon would have vi...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Crayon
Late Art Deco Period Cubist Nautical Harbour Scene
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late Art Deco Period, Cubist watercolour of a nautical harbour scene painted by Yan Bernard Morel (dit Yan Bernard Dyl ) in 1939.
Yan B. Morel, born on June 18th 1887, was a French painter, landscape designer, decorator, illustrator and film maker.
Morel was a friend of Robert Delauney...
Category
1930s Cubist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Carbon Pencil
Mid 20th Century Large Paris School Watercolour of a Tablescape
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large, colourful, Mid Century French watercolour of a tablescape by Roger Decaux. Signed bottom left.
Roger DECAUX was born in 1919 in Dombasle sur Meurthe in the Lorraine. He studied art in Paris with Gino Severini and Jan Brusselmans...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
