Claude Dechezelle

Large mid century modern abstracted cityscape painting southern landscape

circa 1955

This luminous landscape is perfectly capturing the light of early spring. A boy is climbing over wooden farm gates, with a backdrop of rolling hills. The painting has a gloriously fr...

A wonderful and idyllic, mid 19th Century summery village scene, where a pretty young girl stands, knitting (perhaps she is secretly waiting for someone?), village women eat and work...

The setting is the French coast, on a tranquil summer's evening. Clouds are drawing in, the sky is turning dusky pink and purple, but there is still time left for play, for the children on the beach...

It is always wonderful to be able to do original research on a mysterious painting by a mysterious artist. Born in Paris in 1867, Marthe Alers-Abran died tragically young in the same...

A perfect painting for lovers of Japan and those of primitive/naive outside art. It is a work by an internatoanlly noted extraordinary artist with an extraordinary life. Maurice LOIRAND (1922-2008) is born into a working class family in Brittany, near the Atlantic coast coast in France. He starts working as a skilled labourer in the shipyards aged 15. Aged 20, when the Nazis start to occupy the country, he joins the Resistance movement, where he meets and befriends thinkers, painters and poets. He is thus introduced to an artistic and intellectual universe far removed from the world of his origins. Loirand finds himself drawn to art, and soon dedicates all his free time to learn how to paint. Completely self taught, he soon begins to exhibit his pictures alongside high level artists. He moves to Paris in the 1950s, and - although still working as a technician - paints all night. He finally becomes a full time artist in 1968. International travel and a multitude of exhibitions follow. He exhibits in Brazil, Argentina, and with Jean Tiroche Gallery in New York, among others. His work is now shown alongside works by Leger, Matisse and Picasso. The Collector's Guild New York Ltd commissions Maurice Loirand for several works of lithographic art. Loirand discovers Japan in the early 1970s, and decides to stay for 18 years. He marries Kazué SHIMOTORI, a Japanese poet...

This rare mythological scene depicting the Greek author Homer on the island of Scyros. You will notice the Trojan War being fought in the background. Our painting, dating from 1864, is unsigned, but has a solid attribution to academic artist Henri-Léopold Lévy...

Circle of Xavier LEPRINCE (Paris 1799 - Nice 1826) Picnic in the forest Oil on canvas H. 36 cm; L. 26 cm This picnic scene places us around 1825/35, which makes it a rare representa...

Antoine-Claude PONTHUS-CINIER (Lyon, 1812 - Lyon, 1885) Lake Albano, Castel Gandolfo and the Roman countryside Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard H. 38 cm; L. 55 cm Signed lower left Ponthus-Cinier belongs to what could be defined as the third (and so to speak last) generation of neo-classical or historical landscape painters, born in the years 1810/1820, like Félix Lanoüe, Achille Bénouville...

François-Edme RICOIS (Courtalain, 1795 - Mareil-Marly, 1881) View of Châteaudun Oil on canvas H. 65 cm; W. 98 cm Signed and dated lower center 1860 François-Edme Ricois although bor...

Henri Ernest Clément DUPONT-CRESPIN (Notre Dame de Bondeville 1882 – Paris 1953) View of the rooftops of Paris Oil on canvas H. 65 cm; L. 92 cm Signed and dated lower right “3-1948” Exhibition: 60th exhibition of the Salon des Indépendants from April 22 to May 15, 1949 at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris under number 893 Henri Dupont was born in Normandy near Rouen, and to stand out from his very, even too classic, name, he adopted that of his mother as a complement, which would become his unique artist name. He was a drawing teacher at the Épinal high school and also worked at the town museum, lending his eye to the identification of several old paintings. From 1928 and until the day before his death, Dupont-Crespin exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. The vast majority of his works are landscapes, but there are also portraits of his colleagues, friends and relatives. In 1940 he published a collection of engravings...

Jean-Victor BERTIN and workshop (1767, Paris – 1842, Paris) Landscape of Ile de France Oil on canvas H. 38 cm; L. 46 cm Related work: painting of the same composition preserved at t...

Charles MERMÉ (Cherbourg 1818 - Lorient 1869) The blessing of Coureau de Groix at Larmor Oil on canvas H. 60 cm; W. 100 cm Signed and dated lower left, 1...