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1930s Oil on Canvas Portrait of the Artist's Son
Located in Cotignac, FR
1930s Oil on canvas portrait by S Cousin. The painting is signed bottom right and the subject 'Henri Cousin' titled on the back of the canvas.
An engaging and charming oil portrait ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Sgraffito, Saltimbanque and the Card Player, Circle of Picasso.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sgraffito work on plaster by Jean Pierre de Cayeux. The work is signed and dated on the skirt of the card player, bottom right, and on the stretcher of the chair, bo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
French Impressionist Oil on Board, 'Villecelle Pres de Lamalou' South of France.
By Charles Pellegrin
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century French Impressionist street scene by Charles Pellegrin. The painting is signed bottom right and there is a title and exhibition label to the back of the panel. Presented in deep gilt wood and cloth frame.
A charming view of two figures, a mother and child, making their way along a French street in the South of France. on each side of them stone houses and monuments. Pellegrin has captured the romanticism of the scene, the colours of the stone harmonising with the clay roof tiles...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Surrealist Very Large Late 20th Century Oil on Canvas. 'The Temple'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Very large Late 20th century surrealist oil on canvas by British artist Derek Carruthers. The painting is signed to the bottom right.
An imposing and highly colourful painting of co...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Gouache and Watercolour on Paper, 'Sunday School Ghosts'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist watercolour and gouache on handmade paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed bottom right and signed, dated and titled 'Sunday School Ghosts' to the reverse.
A wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
3 Dimensional Sculptural Surrealist Acrylic on Board. 'Swimfest'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century acrylic on plywood board sculptural painting by British artist Derek Carruthers. The work is not signed but was acquired along with a collection of the artist’s wor...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Surrealist Gouache on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour and gouache on paper painting titled 'Siamese Slaves' by British artist Derek Carruthers, signed to the bottom right and to the reverse and dated 2008 and titled.
A colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Surrealist Gouache, 'Kerouac, Orlovsky and Burroughs, The Beat Generation'
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour and gouache on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed to the bottom right.
Carruthers at one period in his painting became quite interested...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor, Crayon, Paper
Surrealist Gouache Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century gouache and watercolour on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. The painting is signed to the bottom right and signed and dated 1985 to the reverse.
An impos...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
The Circus Troupe and Saltimbanque after Pablo Picasso
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th Century gouache work on card of a group of circus performers around a table after Pablo Picasso. The work is dated bottom right.
A charming watercolour and gouache of a tr...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
Montparnasse School Mid Century Street View, Circle of Takanori Oguiss & Foujita
Located in Cotignac, FR
1960s oil on canvas view of the streets around Montparnasse, Paris by Osamu Komma 近馬 治. The painting is signed and dated bottom left and there is script to the back of the canvas. ミッ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Renaissance Style Oil on Card, The Holy Family & Saint Elizabeth, after Raphael
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century oil on card painting of the Holy Family after the work of Raphael. Titled and with initials to the back of the card.
A charming academic study of the famous painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Barbizon Period English Landscape, Oil on Canvas, Circle of John Constable
By Alfred Vickers
Located in Cotignac, FR
Barbizon Period mid 19th Century oil on canvas English rural landscape by Alfred Vickers, Signed bottom right with old collectors label to the rear stretcher. Presented in fine custo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Danish Mid-Century Colourfield Oil on Board of People and Houses by the Coast.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Danish oil on board painting of two women making their way home in a coastal landscape, by Poul Møller. The painting is signed PM and dated 76 to the bottom right corner. To the reve...
Category
Mid-20th Century Color-Field Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Impressionist Paris Street Scene, Oil on Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid-century Impressionist oil on canvas view of a busy Paris Street scene by Vorretto. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a fine moulded and carved gilt fram...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Danish Mid-Century Colourfield Oil on Board of Houses and People in a Landscape.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Danish oil on board painting of couples making their way in a landscape, by Poul Møller. Though not signed the painting has a dated artist's label to the side of the frame. Presented...
Category
Mid-20th Century Color-Field Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Impressionist View of Paris, Le Pont Marie and Île Saint-Louis
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist oil on board view of a fisherman at the riverbank of the Seine in Paris next to the Bridge St Marie, with the old spire of Notre Dame in the distance. The painting is initial signed, located and dated bottom left. Presented in a patinated wood frame. There is a trade label for the Rowley Gallery in Kensington Church Street to the backboard.
A charming Impressionist painting of an iconic Parisian view. The Seine with all its reflected colours passing beneath the arches of an ancient bridge, a church spire just visible through the canopy of the trees, colourful boats moored, a fisherman sitting in the shade of the riverbank hopeful of a catch. The artist has managed to capture all the languid, quiet beauty of the scene in the midst of a bustling metropolis which is Paris. The water in the Seine is full of colour and nuance and the green of the trees give the painting a freshness. A very accomplished composition beautifully executed.
Le Pont Marie crossing the Seine in Paris. The bridge links the Île Saint-Louis to the quai de l'Hôtel de Ville and is one of three bridges designed to allow flow between the Île Saint-Louis and the Left and Right banks...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Figurative Portrait in the Style of Ramiro Arrue, The Gypsy Caravan
By Ramiro Arrue
Located in Cotignac, FR
Figurative Expressionist portrait and scene of a travellers gypsy caravan. The painting is signed bottom right, Fayo (?) but further research is necessary for an attribution. Presented in a fine chip carved Montparnasse frame.
Provenance: from a Private French collection, South of France.
A strong and powerful scene, part portrait part scene of a travellers life. Both characters seem to be in quiet contemplation aware of each other but not looking. The artist has created a mood to the painting featuring simple lines with an almost monumental quality and muted colour harmonies. The work is very reminiscent of the paintings of Ramiro Arrue and the scenes of his beloved Basque country.
Ramiro Arrue was born in Bilbao, into an artistic family: his three older brothers, Alberto, Ricardo, and José, were also artists and frequently held joint exhibitions with him. He also had two sisters. Their father, Lucas Arrue, was an art collector who sold his collections (including a Goya) to pay for the artistic training of his sons. At the age of nineteen, Ramiro travelled to Paris to take courses at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Living in Montparnasse, he became an associate of his countrymen Ignacio Zuloaga and Paco Durrio, as well as the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who became a close friend. He was also associated with Picasso, Modigliani, and Jean Cocteau. In 1911, Arrue exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français.
In 1922, along with his friends Philip Veyrin and Commandant William Boissel, he founded the Musée Basque at Bayonne.
In 1925 Arrue won a gold medal at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs. He exhibited in Bayonne, Pau, Strasbourg, Bilbao, and Cordoba. Along with his brother José, he travelled and exhibited in South America, to Buenos Aires and Montevideo. He often, however, returned to the Basque Country, particularly to Saint-Jean-de-Luz, where he settled in 1917 and where he found his main inspiration for landscapes, portraits, and everyday scenes. In 1929, he married Suzanne: they went on honeymoon in St. Tropez.
Arrue produced illustrations for Francis Jammes (La Noce basque), Pierre Loti (Ramuntcho), Joseph Peyré (Jean le basque...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil, chalk and watercolour depiction of Napoleon at the head of his generals by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed bottom right.
A bold and graphic depiction of Napoleo...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Coco the Clown in Top Hat and Bow Tie. Milan School, Italian Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Expressionist oil on canvas portrait of a clown by Italian artist Luciano Morterra. Signed bottom right and dated 1976 to the bottom left and presented in a period frame under glass....
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orientalist Beach Scene, Chenoua Plage, Algerie, Oil On Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An Orientalist beach scene of the coast of Algeria at Chenoua by French painter Gustave Lino. The painting is signed, located and dated bottom left. Presented in a plain gilt frame.
A charming and atmospheric view of a day at the beach. The revellers are enjoying bathing in the Mediterranean, resting under their colourful parasols against the sun and exploring the far off rocks of the cove. The sea gently lapping against the rocks at the shore. A small row boat ready for an excursion. Lino has beautifully captured the feeling of joy and fun that a day at the beach brings.
Gustave Lino was born in 1893 in Mulhouse, France. At the age of twenty, he went to Marseille, discovered Provence and the Mediterranean. He was already interested in painting and art from numerous visits to the museum of his hometown, but he had not yet followed any training in this field.
In Marseille, far from home and idle, he decides, almost on a whim, to travel to Algiers, without really knowing what he will discover there. He embarked for Algiers at the age of 19 in 1912. He exhibited with his friends Romeo Charles Aglietti in 1914 at 'Herero' in Algiers.
Unfortunately in 1914 in Corsica in Ajaccio, being of German nationality and Mulhouse being part of the German Empire since 1871, he was interned as a 'civilian'. He spent the First World War in the Isle of Beauty but spent his time wisely developing his artistic skills. He realised many paintings as well as the historical decorations of the Solferino Hotel in Ajaccio and the religious decorations of the castle of Malaspena-Massa in Belgodère.
In December 1918, he returned to Algiers where he was a pupil of Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1926 and at the Danton gallery, rue La Boétie in 1927. He settled permanently in Algiers and then in Bou-Saada.
Back in Algeria, he took a close interest in the painting of Albert Marquet, which particularly seduced him and with whom he became a close friend. The transparent sharpness, this harmony of lines and tones becomes his ideal of perfection. He specialised in Algerian seascapes and landscapes, a colourist above all.
Becoming an adopted member of the group called "Painters of Poetic Reality" (with Jean...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orientalist Garden, Boujloud, Fès, Ladies at the Fountain. Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An Orientalist scene of ladies in a garden, Boujloud in Fès, oil on canvas by French artist Charles Jules Walère Duvent. Signed, dated and located bottom right on fine stretcher with...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Assemblées', Figures In Motion, Oil on Paper on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract impressionist oil on paper on board by French artist Chantal Payet. Signed and dated April '96 to the reverse.
An interesting and challenging Abstract Impressionist work in...
Category
1990s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
Leda and the Swan, an early 20th Century Aesthetic Movement Allegorical Painting
By Fernand Allard L'Olivier
Located in Cotignac, FR
An early 20th century aesthetic movement allegorical oil on canvas painting of Leda and the Swan by Fernand Allard l'Olivier. Presented in plain wood frame.
Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek...
Category
Early 20th Century Aesthetic Movement Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Crossing the Water. Mid 19th Century Realist Painting. Ecouen school.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th century Realist ink, watercolour and gouache portrait on paper of a young man in a field by John George Todd. The painting is signed G Todd bottom left as was his usual mann...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink, Gouache
Circle of Othon Friesz, Le Naufrage, Large Scale Work on Canvas
By Achille-Émile Othon Friesz
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large scale work on canvas of a seascape and figures leaving the water reminiscent in style and colour palette to the works of French artist Achille-Émile Othon Friesz...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Donald Duck and Le Petit Ecolier, Early 20th Century Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century oil on board portrait of a young schoolboy 'Le Petit Écolier', with Donald Duck, by Pierre Villain (French, 1880-1950). Signed top ri...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Him' and 'Her', A Pair of Large Glasgow School Portrait Paintings on Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
A pair of large Glasgow School oil on canvas portraits by Scottish artist Stuart Mackenzie. The works are presented in plain baton wood frames.
Thoug...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Him', A Large Glasgow School Oil Painting Portrait on Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large Glasgow School oil on canvas portrait by Scottish artist Stuart Mackenzie. The painting is presented in a plain baton wood frame.
Though not ...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Her', A Large Glasgow School Oil Painting Portrait On Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large Glasgow School oil on canvas portrait by Scottish artist Stuart Mackenzie. The painting is presented in a plain baton wood frame.
Though not ...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yarn Spinner, in the manner of Pietro Longhi
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 19th century oil on panel portrait of a young girl spinning.
Pietro Longhi was a Venetian painter who mastered the portrayal of scenes of everyda...
Category
19th Century Rococo Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Cubist Interpretation of Baule Masks, Masques Africains Cubistes.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th Century French oil on board painting of stylised African Tribal masks by Charles LeBris. Signed, dated and numbered bottom right.
An arresting and colourful work reminiscent of the paintings of Picasso and Modigliani from the beginning of the 20th century.
Le Bris has taken as his subject the Baule masks...
Category
1990s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Board
A Good Catch, Mending the Nets, French Mid Century Port Scene
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large and colourful French mid-century painting of fishermen repairing their nets by Jean-Frédéric Canepa. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a fine gilded wood f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Boys in the Band, French Provencal Coloured Drawing of a 'Mariachi' Musical Band
Located in Cotignac, FR
A crayon and chalk drawing of a band by French artist Jean Arène. The work is signed and dated top left. Presented in plain metal frame under glass.
A charming coloured drawing of a Provencal musical band. The French equivalent of a 'mariachi band'. Two trumpet players, a tuba and a drum. The musicians are all wearing straw 'boater' hats and striped blazers. In the background is the terrace of a café with its green tables. Arene has captured, with a lightness of touch, all the excitement and animation of the scene.
Jean Arène was a student of August Chabaud, a highly sought after French artist in Provence who in turn took his inspiration from Cezanne.
After a stint in 1949 at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille, then a year in Paris in 1950 with the poster artist Paul Colin, Jean Arène returned to Marseille the following year where he founded the "Group of under 30' with Trofimoff, Trabuc, Zutter and Mela and began painting as an autodidact, while earning a living in advertising and decoration.
His first exhibition dates from 1956. Then, from 1957, Jean Arène left the city for the countryside, which served as his base for many trips, often hitchhiking and backpacking, but always accompanied by a pencil and a sketchbook: Spain, Morocco in 1957, West Africa in 1960, (followed by an exhibition in Dakar), Northern Europe (Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lapland , Lofoten, Netherlands and Belgium) In 1963 a trip to Tunisia. Then in 1966 his first retrospective in Toulon.
In 1970 Arène left for the United States and Mexico, followed two years later by West Africa again: Tassili, the Sahara and Algeria.
He exhibited extensively in Provence and the Gard: Aix-en-Provence, Uzès, Avignon, La Ciotat...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Wax Crayon
French Impressionist Painting, The River Barges
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century view of barges at a riverbank by French artist Georges Planes. The painting is signed bottom right. The painting is very nicely framed in a blue painted wood frame...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Watercolor
Les Voiliers de Pêche, The Fishing Boats. French Impressionist oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French oil on board seascape of fishing boats under sail by Henri Edouard Bargin. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a deep pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Christmas is a Coming', French Oil on Canvas Painting of Toys and Decorations.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French oil on canvas painting of Holiday preparations, toys and other delights of Christmas. The painting is signed bottom left (as yet undeciphered).
A very charming painting of ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cottage, A Rural Idyll, Large Scale French Country Landscape. Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large scale oil on canvas landscape painting of a thatched cottage with a far view to a church spire beyond a lake by Percy. The painting is signed bottom right and is presented in...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Papakha, A Pre Revolutionary Nobleman From the Caucasus.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large French oil on canvas portrait of a dignitary from the Caucasus by Théophile Paul Marie Bérengier. The painting is signed and dated b...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Quais à Paris, French Impressionist View of Paris and Notre Dame
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist oil on board view of a fisherman at the riverbank of the Seine in Paris with the tower of Notre Dame in the distance by Andre Malterre. Signed bottom right, sign...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Breton Girl, Mid Century Drawing with Watercolour
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French drawing and watercolour portrait of a Breton Girl by Renée Béja noted pupil of Fernand leger. The work is signed on the right margin and presented in a gilt frame with a fine cut card mount.
A wonderful character portrait of a girl in traditional Breton costume and head dress. Beja has completed a pencil drawing and then used washes, watercolour and gouache to give the composition life. Lifelike flesh tones and the blue of the subjects eyes give the whole a charming intimacy.
Renée Anne Béja was a French painter and theatre decorator of Greek origin born in Thessaloniki (Ottoman Empire, today in Greece) on July 4, 1905
Renée Béja was still a young child when the family moved to Solliès-Pont in France, where her father worked as a flour miller at the Crédit Agricole.
In the 1930s, Renée Béja was a pupil of Fernand Léger. Between 1935 and 1938, she exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries, presenting mainly Views of the Périgord, she also participated in 1938 in the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants.
During the Second World War, Renée Béja, her husband and some of her family were saved by being hidden by Eugène Viès, executive of the SNCF in Solliès-Pont, the industrialist Étienne Arnaud and the secretary of the town hall registering them under a false name on the register of inhabitants, so as to entitle them to food tickets. A Gestapo raid, however, meant that the Béja family had to leave Solliès-Pont for Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, always with the help of Eugène Viès and his wife Walda, to whom the Yad Vashem Institute has since awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations.
Based at 41, rue Blomet in Paris, Renée Béja then also worked as a decorator for the theatre. She created the sets, costumes and masks for the play Les Choéphores by Aeschylus, performed in the great amphitheatre of the Sorbonne in June 1949, then at the Palais des Papes as part of the Avignon Festival in July 1950.
The works of René Béjà, including portraits, nudes, still lifes, landscapes of Provence, Brittany and Paris, were presented at the Salon du Gemmail in Tours, stylistically, as with her colleague Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq, post-cubist and abstract experiments, but also classifying it, with Germaine Lacaze, Marguerite Bermond, Geneviève Gavrel and Guillemette Morand...
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
Early 20th Century Society Portrait , Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century oil on board society portrait by French artist Rose Teitgen-Obeurer. Signed top left.
A charming and characterful portrait of a fine lady...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
'Ginette', French Art Deco Portrait
By Charles Picart le Doux
Located in Cotignac, FR
French oil on canvas portrait of a young beauty by Charles Alexandre René Picart Le Doux. Signed and dated bottom right. There is an exhibition label with number and title 'Ginette' ...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Motherhood' A Redhead Beauty with Children. Mid-century Oil on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century post modern oil on paper of a woman with children. Signed and dated 1948 to the bottom left, (the artist as yet undiscovered).
An arrestin...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"La Corrida", "The Bull Run", French Abstract Expressionist Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century abstract Expressionist oil on board by French artist Emmanuelle Bardet. Signed bottom right and dated 95 and titled "La Corrida" to the reverse along with a dedicat...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"La Cagole", "The Extrovert", French Abstract Expressionist Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century abstract Expressionist oil on board by French artist Emmanuelle Bardet. Signed bottom right and dated 1995 and titled "La Cagole" to the re...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
