“Park Scenes with Figures” by Esther Williams

Gaston Sebire French, 1920-2002 Landscape with figures Oil on canvas 31 by 41 ½ in. With frame 38 by 48 ½ in. Signed lower right Gaston Sebire (1920 – 2002) Gaston Sebire, was one of Europe’s leading landscapists, was born in the village of Saint-Samson in Normandy in 1920. A self taught artist, he began to paint seriously at the age of eighteen. For eight years he worked as a postal clerk in the Rouen, sorting letters at night in order to support his career as a painter. In 1952 Gaston Sebire had his first exhibition at the Galerie Gosselin in Paris. The following years he enjoyed the double triumph of winning both the coveted Prix de la Critique and the Prix Casa Velasquez. The Latter award made it possible for him to spend a year and a half in Spain. Of this formative period he said, “They were my first, wonderful years without worry. For fifteen years I had never known what the next day would bring.” The year 1957 marked another important stage in his career. His painting “La Dinde” won the Greenshields Prize in a field of 136 competitors, making it possible for him to paint for another two years without the worry of finances. Winning the awards naturally drew public attention to the artist from Normandy, and his works were presented in highly successful one-man shows in Paris. Sebire was a Norman, a man strongly attached to the soil, and after his exhibitions in Paris, he returned to Rouen to his large house overlooking the town and once again plunged into painting the countryside. Gaston Sebire was a strongly built man with square hands and a rather heavy walk. He had immense vitality, and used that to his advantage.  As he said of himself, “When the snow falls, I can’t stay indoors. I set out with my paint box. I paint outdoors from nine in the morning until five at night. If it were only a question of money, one could just as well paint in one’s own room.” But Sebire went into the countryside, or into the village, and sets up his easel. When there is a café into which people are going; there is a fence, a telegraph pole, a few buildings in the background. The scene takes on life, vivid life, with a sense of some event about to take place in the scene. Like many artists, and like a typical Norman, Sebire was silent and solitary by nature, with a personality as strong and Frank as his paintings. A painting, he says, “must have an element of mystery, show an effort to look beyond the aura surface of things.” Sebire’s early paintings were somber with much use of black and white tones. In 1970 he turned to colour. The subtle light of the Normandy skies; the shifting light and color along the seacoast; the magnificent blues of the Rouen pottery...

Lucien Adrion French, 1889-1953 Figures in a Landscape Oil on canvas Signed lower left 22 by 33in. w/frame 29 ½ by 39 ¾in. Lucien Adrion was born in Strasbourg, France in 1889 an...

Theodore Alexander Weber German, 1838-1907 “Harbor Scene” Oil on canvas 22 by 36 in. W/frame 28 by 42 in. Studied: Under Wilhelm Krause in Berlin, 1854; Eugene Isabey, P...

Andre Gisson. American, 1921-2003. “Paris Street Scene.” Oil on canvas. 24 by 36 in. with frame 29 ½ by 41 ½ in. Impressionist painter, And...

Frank Usher De Voll
American, 1873-1941

“Madison Square Tower and Park”

Oil on canvas

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Harry (Arijac) Jacques Haitian, 1937- “Haitian Scene in Railyard” Oil on canvas 24 by 34 in. Arijac was born in Gonaïves, Haiti on August ...

In this listing you will find a large scale canvas depicting three nude male figures. This homoerotic scene is done in oil pastels on canvas by the Italian artist Silvia Volpini in 1...

Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso Title - "Springtime Rendezvous by a Murmuring Stream". Charming image of a village lane with a figure walking his dog, and another relaxing on the stone wall watching...

A wonderful abstract by the Chinese/American artist Esther Liu (b 1950). This painting is signed on the reverse on the stretcher. It is large at 59 x 66 inc...

California landscape painting in original period carved and gilded wood frame. Signed, Esther Smee ( b.1917 ) Esther B. Smee was born in Pennsylvania in 1917....

Esther Ritz, born New York City, has been working as an abstract painter and contemporary artist in Dallas for the last twenty years. She is represented at...

Early 1960 Manhattan street scene. Great fashions depicting the times. Unframed, signed Boudreau. City bus with a fashionable crowd strolling. It's not Joe Boudreau...