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French School MastersFrench school Landscape Mediterranean coastal village Signed oil painting1962 (possible)
1962 (possible)
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About the Item
➡️ Mediterranean coastal village⬅️
⏩It is signed Ru Rinaldi⏪
⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on canvas
⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork.
⭐Size:⭐55.5x46cm / 21.9x18.1 inch
with frame 65.5x56x5cm / 27.8x22.2 inch
⭐Date: 1962⭐Engraved on the stretcher: 4/07/1962”
⭐Condition : ⭐ Good condition. NO cracks, beautiful.
⭐Provenance:⭐ Private collection - France.
⭐Shipping:⭐ from France is fast 4-6 days with Fedex / DHL
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More about the painting:
The Artist: R.U. Rinaldi (20th Century)
R.U. Rinaldi was a 20th-century painter who established his studio at Place de la Porte de Bagnolet in Paris's 20th arrondissement. While not among the most documented artists of his era, Rinaldi specialized in Mediterranean coastal scenes and maritime subjects, developing a distinctive approach to capturing the light, architecture, and atmosphere of southern European seaside communities. His works have appeared at auction since the mid-20th century, with documented sales showing paintings depicting villages by the sea, sailboats, and coastal properties,subjects that reveal his deep affinity for Mediterranean life and landscape.
☀️Subject Matter and Setting☀️
This oil painting depicts an idyllic Mediterranean coastal village scene, likely inspired by locations along the Italian, French, or Croatian Adriatic coast. The composition centers on a distinctive archway tower with a terracotta-tiled roof, a characteristic architectural element of historic Mediterranean port towns. Through this archway, we glimpse the azure sea beyond, with a small white sailboat visible on the horizon, a detail that reinforces the maritime character of the setting and adds narrative depth to the scene.
The left side of the composition features multi-story buildings in warm ochres and yellows, their facades punctuated by green shuttered windows and shadowed doorways. These structures display the weathered charm of old coastal architecture, with textured walls suggesting centuries of sun, salt air, and Mediterranean life. In the immediate foreground, small figures, rendered with economical brushwork, go about their daily activities, including what appears to be vendors or locals gathered near the buildings.
The right side opens to a sun-drenched plaza where two prominent palm trees frame the seaward view, their fronds rendered in vibrant greens and yellows that catch the brilliant Mediterranean light. Several figures populate this plaza, engaged in conversation, creating a sense of leisurely social interaction characteristic of southern European coastal life. The composition successfully balances architectural elements with natural features, creating a harmonious vision of human habitation in harmony with the coastal environment.
☀️Technical Execution and Style☀️
Rinaldi employs oil paint with confident, visible brushwork that suggests forms without overworking details. His technique demonstrates proficiency in handling paint texturally, building up surfaces in the architecture while using thinner applications for sky and distant water. The paint application varies across the canvas: thicker impasto in the palm fronds and architectural highlights, more fluid passages in the sky, and careful attention to the interplay of light and shadow on building facades.
The artist's approach falls within the post-impressionist tradition, showing awareness of how impressionists handled light and atmosphere while maintaining greater structural clarity. Unlike pure impressionism's dissolution of form, Rinaldi preserves architectural integrity and spatial logic while still capturing atmospheric effects. His brushwork is descriptive rather than purely optical, he paints what he knows as much as what he sees, resulting in work that balances observation with interpretation.
The handling of perspective demonstrates competent spatial construction. The archway serves as a natural focal point, drawing the eye through the composition toward the sea beyond. The buildings recede convincingly, and the plaza's ground plane tilts appropriately to suggest depth. This spatial organization reveals an artist comfortable with compositional fundamentals while maintaining a personal, somewhat romantic vision of his subject.
☀️Color Palette and Light☀️
The palette radiates Mediterranean warmth. Dominant ochres, siennas, and soft oranges in the architecture contrast beautifully with the cerulean and cobalt blues of sky and sea. The palm trees introduce vibrant greens, from emerald to olive, that provide fresh accents against the warmer tones. Red-orange roof tiles add punctuation, while the brilliant white of the central tower creates a luminous focal point that anchors the composition.
Rinaldi demonstrates sensitivity to Mediterranean light, that particular quality of southern sunshine that simultaneously clarifies and softens, creating sharp shadows while bathing everything in warm radiance. The sky shows subtle gradation from deeper blue at the top to lighter, warmer tones near the horizon, suggesting the atmospheric haze characteristic of coastal regions. Shadows are rendered not as flat darks but as colored darks, purples, deep blues, and warm browns, showing understanding of how Mediterranean light affects shadow tones.
The painting captures a specific time of day, likely mid-to-late afternoon when the sun casts defined shadows while still illuminating the scene with golden warmth. This lighting creates the strong contrasts between sunlit facades and shadowed passages that give the architecture its three-dimensional presence and visual drama.
☀️Compositional Strategy☀️
The composition employs classical principles with personal variation. The archway functions as a repoussoir device, framing the view and creating depth through layered spatial planes. The diagonal recession from lower left to upper right, following the line of buildings, provides dynamic movement, while the vertical accent of the palm trees balances this diagonal thrust. The placement of the archway slightly off-center creates visual interest while maintaining overall equilibrium.
Small figures are strategically positioned to activate different areas of the composition and establish scale. These figures, though summarily rendered, serve multiple functions: they animate the scene, provide human interest, establish the architecture's scale, and suggest the social character of Mediterranean coastal life. Their placement guides the viewer's eye through the composition while suggesting narrative possibilities.
☀️Cultural and Historical Context☀️
Painted in 1962, this work reflects the continued vitality of traditional landscape painting during a period when abstract expressionism and pop art dominated avant-garde discourse. Rinaldi, working in Paris but painting Mediterranean subjects, represents numerous mid-century artists who maintained representational practices while the art world's attention focused elsewhere. Such painters served important cultural functions, documenting places, preserving artistic traditions, and providing collectors with accessible, beautiful works that celebrated recognizable subjects.
The early 1960s marked a period of increasing tourism to Mediterranean regions, and paintings like this appealed to collectors who wanted mementos of travels or romantic visions of southern European life.
- Creator:French School Masters (French)
- Creation Year:1962 (possible)
- Dimensions:Height: 21.86 in (55.5 cm)Width: 18.12 in (46 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Zofingen, CH
- Reference Number:Seller: Ru Rinaldi1stDibs: LU2203217507372
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