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Mid 20th Century French Impasto Oil Painting on Canvas Still Life

Mid 20th Century

Artist/ School: French Fauvist school, after Max Pechstein Title: Nudes in Landscape Medium: oil painting on board, unframed board: 15 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection,...

Abstract by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001) Signed lower front oil painting on canvas, beautifully painted with thick impasto oil and bold colors. very good condition size: 21 inches x 25.5 inches provenance: all the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artists estate in France. Biography Edouard Righetti : Born July 14, 1924 in Menton (Alpes-Maritimes). Died in Paris in December 2001. 20th century. French. Engraver, painter and draftsman of compositions with characters, figures, landscapes, urban landscapes, seascapes, interiors, still lifes, animals, flowers. Édouard Righetti began by taking courses at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier. He then continued his training at the School of Decorative Arts in Nice. In 1949, he met the engraver Edouard Goerg and was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in his studio until 1954. There he learned to work with copper, aquatint, etching. at the waist, the drypoint. In 1953 he made a trip to Rome, Florence and Pisa. In 1956 he obtained a two-year scholarship to Casa Velasquez (Madrid). He participates in group exhibitions, among which: 1953, 40,000 years of Modern Art, Paris; 1958,1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, Salon Le Trait; 1959, Galerie Greuze, Paris; 1964, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, as well as at the Salon Pointe et Burin and at the Biennale de Paris. He shows his works in personal exhibitions, including: 1951, Menton; 1953, Galerie Eliane Norbert, Paris; 1961, Galerie Bonaparte, Paris; 1963, 1964, Le Nouvel Essor gallery, Paris; 1965, Galerie Bernier, Paris; 1965, Galerie La Gravure, Pully-Lausanne; 1979, retrospective, Palais de l'Europe, Menton; 1985, Bernheim-Guiot gallery, Paris. He moved to his studio on rue Léon-Dierx in 1964. Righetti's first engravings were still lifes and biblical scenes. He also engraved the sadness of the suburbs, melancholy portraits, and several medals for the Monnaie de Paris. The Department of Prints and Photography of the National Library of France keeps more than 200 of his works. He had been married to the artist Andrée Saunier...

Portrait of a Blonde Girl by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001) Signed lower front and dated 1992 inscribed verso, 'Paris' oil painting on canvas, beautifully painted with thick impasto o...

Artist/ School: E.Johnson, British mid 20th century, signed and inscribed verso Title: 'Cumberland', a fine Post-Impressionist oil depicting this rugged mountain face bathed in vary...

Clown Character by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed on front and back oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 13 inches Colors: Dark blue colors, yellow, red, green an...

Dancing Birds by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) stamped verso oil painting on board, unframed board: 29 x 20 inches Colors: Grey colors, blue, pink, pi...

Arbre de Vie is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. The artist uses bright colors in this expressionist painting ...

Unique figurative harlequin painting with Picasso style and abstract elements with dream-like layering by Robert Moesle (American, b.1932). Signed "Moesle" lower left. Titled "The Harlequin Prince" on verso. Displayed in a rustic painted giltwood frame with linen liner. Image size: 40"H x 32"W. Framed Size; 45"H x 37"W. Robert Moesle was born in San Jose, California in 1932. He graduated from San Jose State College and attended The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, England. Moesle lives in the Chateau region of France, which he finds to be an ideal location for a watercolorist. Moesle paints outside and enjoys watching the landscape change through the seasons. Unlike most watercolorists, Moesle takes his time painting and tries to capture the feeling of durability in his subjects. Moesle has exhibited his work in shows in London, Paris and throughout the United States. “Figurative painting by Robert Moesle are…lyrical, visionary, softly dream-like… Moesle’s Harlequin Prince offers a memory of early Picasso...

Nordfeldt's misty and moody monochromatic modernist landscape is reminiscent of Marsden Hartley. Signed lower right. The plaque reads B.J.O Nordfeldt "Moon in Mist - The painting l...

A narrative landscape, suggesting a collision of art, history, and phantasm. Oil paint, collage, mixed media on panel. references Guggenheim, Roman colosseum

Le Bois is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This expressionist painting is inspired from an enchanted wood, showing...

Arbre de Vie is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. The artist uses bright colors in this expressionist painting ...