Claude Benard

Fishing Boats Moored, Signed Oil Painting

c.1950's

Artist/ School: French School, indistinctly signed, circa 1944 Title: Flowers and Fruit, remnants of old label verso Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Painting: 24 x 20 inches Prov...

Pink and White Flowers by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) stamped verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 22 x 18 inches Colors: Pink colors, white, green, blue, white, gre...

Garden Flowers by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed and stamped verso oil painting on board, unframed board: 29 x 21 inches Colors: Green colors, pink, white and red Very goo...

Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) oil on unstretched canvas, unframed painting: 24 x 19.5 inches provenance: the artists estate, France condition: the painting is on unstretched canv...

The French Town French School (Fauvist), mid 20th century indistinctly signed lower front oil painting on artists board, unframed size: 15 x 18 inches condition: very good provenance: from a private collection in Paris Superb mid 20th century French Fauvist...

Cabbage/ Cauliflower, Signed Oil Painting By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016) Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner, Oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas si...

Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013) Autumn Garden Still Life, 1990 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 54 x 72 inches Joseph O'Sickey, born in Detroit in 1918, was a painter and teacher throughout his career. As a child he attended Saturday classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art...

Carmen Espel (1926) - Still life with the sea in the background Oil on canvas - Hand signed Oil measures 54x73 cm. Frameless. Contemporary Barcelona pai...

To go towards the unknown in his own cosmos and to bring back paintings inspired by the terrestrial and extra-terrestrial nature, the unknown, space, the galactic void. Halfway betwe...

Brilliantly-colored bouquet of flowers in a landscape, set against a dramatic sky. Oil on canvas measures 16 x 12; frame dimensions measure 24 x 20 x 1 1/2. Housed in a soft-gold to...

Signed oil on panel landscape circa 1900 by French post impressionist painter Henri Lebasque. The work depicts a field lined with trees with a haystack to the left. There is a view o...

Signed post impressionist landscape oil on panel by popular French painter Georges D'Espagnat. The piece depicts the beach at Belle Ile, an island off the coast of Brittany in France, at sunset. An exceptional early painting by D'Espagnat which shows the precursor influence of Fauvism which was to dominate his paintings in the following few years. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 23"x26" Unframed: 15"x18" Provenance: Private French collection A certificate of authenticity from Mr. Jean-Dominique Jacquemond is available upon request. This work will be included in the catalogue raisonne of Georges D'Espagnat under preparation by Mr. Jacquemond From the beginning of his career, it was a constant concern of Georges d'Espagnet to assert his originality. His studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, did not last very long, for he wanted immediate independence and decided to follow courses in the private academies of Montparnasse. In about 1900, he became acquainted with Maurice Denis, Bonnard and Vuillard, and his collaboration with Denis led to a renewal of religious art in France. In 1903, d'Espagnet was one of the founders of the Salon d'Automne, and was appointed professor in charge of studios at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1934. He illustrated a number of books: Rémy de Gourmont's Evil Prayers ( Oraisons mauvaises) (1896), The Saints of Paradise ( Les Saintes du paradis) (1898), Simone (1907), Sistine ( Sixtine) (1922); Alphonse Daudet's The Immortal ( L'Immortel) (1930); André Gide's The Pastoral Symphony ( La Symphonie pastorale); Francis Jammes' Clearings in the Sky ( Chairières dans le ciel) (1948). D'Espagnet belongs to the group of artists who made the Courrier Français so successful. The drawings of his which are published in it are strongly expressive and some bear comparison with the designs of the great Renaissance masters. He also contributed to L'Image. He often placed cheerful nudes in a landscape, reminding us that, though he moved away from the Fauves, he retained their freedom of colour and arabesque. He painted many portraits, including those of Albert André, André Barbier, Victor Boucher, Déodat de Séverac, Albert Marque, André Marty and Albert Roussel. He also painted mural decorations, including a wall for the Palais de la Découverte (1937), the ceiling of the Victor Hugo Room in the Palais du Luxembourg (1939), a decorative panel for the Palais de Justice, Toulouse (1941) and interior decorations for private houses. His landscapes are Impressionist in inspiration, and work for a certain sobriety, an intimacy, both in their composition - one, two or three sketched figures and large open spaces - and in the choice of colours and treatment with the special hazy brushstroke that marks his style. D'Espagnet took part in a number of annual Parisian exhibitions, including the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Salon d'Automne (from 1903 to 1949, except in special circumstances), the Salon de la Libre Ésthétique, Brussels (1899, 1901), the Berlin Secessionists (1940). He also exhibited at the first Salon de la Société de la Gravure sur Bois. Among other exhibitions were 1912, A Century of French Art ( Centenaire de l'art français), St Petersburg; 1916, Kunstverein, Winterthur; 1918, 1926, Galerie M. Bertheim, Paris; 1930, Contemporary French Art...