Mid 20th Century French School

Lunch in the Square - Large Mid 20th Century French Impressionist Oil Painting

c.1960

A beautiful mid 20th century French post-impressionist oil on panel depicting a busy summer evening in Paris. Lovely quality atmospheric work which is indistinctly signed lower rig...

A wonderful 1930's French impressionist oil on board depicting a gentleman taking a stroll past a vegetable stall, probably in Provence. The work is very atmospheric and superbly p...

A beautiful 1950's French naif oil on board depicting Place de Metz in Grenoble, South of France. Superb period work depicting the famous square. Presented in a painted frame. Artist: French School...

A beautiful large 1930's French oil on canvas depicting the famous Place des Vosges in Paris. Striking and vibrant work, presented in a good quality painted wood Montparnasse frame....

A charming depiction of children playing by the park in a village setting. The colors are breathtaking, as the impressionistic details are noted with thicker use of paint. The compos...

Artist/ School: Guy Benard, French contemporary, signed Title: Dappled Light Cafe Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 19.75 x 24 inches Provenance: ...

Outdoor Cafe Scene by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) size: 13 x 16.5 inches oil painting on board, unframed condition: the painting is in very good condition. It has previously been stor...

ARTIST: Guy Roddon (1919-2006) British TITLE: "French Cafe Street Scene" SIGNED: lower left MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 80cm x 70cm inc frame CONDITION: excellent DETAIL: Painter and teacher, born in London. After Bryanston School he studied at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art with James Bateman and Clive Gardiner, 1937–9, then at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, 1939–40, with Ernest Jackson, and drawing at La Grande Chaumière, Paris. During World War II he served in Royal Engineers before transferring to the Camouflage Unit, which included Frederick Gore, Oliver Messel, Roland Penrose and Claude Rogers. Roddon spent part of the war stationed in the Old Assembly Rooms, Norwich, as a camouflage instructor alongside Messel and Penrose. From 1948–50, he taught at Goldsmiths’; from 1960–1 was commissioned to paint The Stations of the Cross and Resurrrection for St Thomas More, Patcham; from 1960–3 moved to Paris; rented Edwin John’s studio in Tite Street for 10 years; and began a series of portraits, sitters including the novelist L P Hartley, composer John Ireland...