André Margat Furniture

Framed watercolor by Albert Andre signed lower right. Measures 17" x 15" including frame and 12" x 9" sight. Provenance: Sothebys Andre came to Paris in 1889 as an industrial designer. At the age of 23 he enrolled at the studio of William Bouguereau at the Académie Julian, where he met Ranson, Louis Valtat and the young poet and dramatist Henry Bataille, who at the time was training as a painter. He illustrated L'étang de Berre by Charles Maurras and Les Petites Alliées by Claude Farrère. He produced cartoons for tapestries for the Beauvais factory. In his youth he worked in Paris and Loudun, but later settled in the Midi, where he became curator of the museum in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, building up a major collection of contemporary art, including works by Monet, Renoir, Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse and Despiau. In 1923, as a friend of Renoir, he compiled his recollections of the painter in a preface to an album of collotypes of his works. He was initially influenced in his painting by Delacroix, and it was Cézanne's paintings that helped him discover how to give the impression of volume using colour: warm tones for illuminated surfaces and cool colours for shadow. But it was undoubtedly Renoir who had the most profound influence on him, especially as it was Renoir who noticed his paintings in 1894 and introduced him to Paul Durand...

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...

French Art Deco mixed-media painting on panel by Vanvinckenray (School: Beaux-Arts of Brussels). Provenance: Daughter of the artist.

French Impressionism oil painting on canvas by French Artist Andre Albert Tondu. Township view through trees. Original painted wood f...

Full of drama and intrigue, both sensual and classical, this depiction of a female nude tiptoeing toward a curtain being pulled aside by a threatening, unseen figure, has all the noc...

Antal Berkes (1874-1938) Antal Berkes (1874–1938) was a Hungarian painter, born in Budapest, Hungary. He lived in Paris for some time and produced cityscapes there as well as simi...

‘The Death of Penthesilea’ Oil Painting by André Hofer (1890 -1973) ‘Le Mort de Penthésilée’ (The Death of Penthesilea – Classical Greek Tragedy) by Frenc...

André Eijberg print on textile, signed lower right framed H: 150 cm W: 90 cm. André Eijberg is a Belgian sculptor and ceramist born in Ixelles (1929 - 2012)

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Imagine the radiant serenity of a sunny day on the Côte d'Azur, captured with exceptional sensitivity by the famous artist Emile Godchaux (1860-1938) at the beginning of the 20th cen...

A wonderful pure Deco image of theatrical masks on a leafy background over a geometric ground. in the style of Andre Arbus.

A small very well painted Art Deco painting in muted tones depicting Lady Godiva riding her horse through town. Nice details and a wonderful representati...