GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013)

MID CENTURY FRENCH OIL PAINTING - BESIDE THE CANAL

c. 1960 s

"The Canal" by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013) stamped verso oil painting on canvas canvas: 8.75 x 10.5 inches Original oil painting on canvas by the French artist, Genevièv...

Landscape by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013) oil painting on board board: 9 x 10.5 inches Superb mid-century oil painting on board by the French artist, Geneviève Zondervan ...

Cubist Angular Construction of a Town by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 18.5 x 15 inches Provenance: all the paint...

The Grand Canal, Venice French artist, mid 20th century oil on board, unframed board: 16.5 x 10.75 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: good condition For more ...

Claude Venard (French, 1913 - 1999) Venice Canal, Italy, circa 1950-55 Oil on canvas 24 x 24 inches Signed lower center Provenance: Private Collection, Massachusetts The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Galerie Felix Vercel. Claude Venard was a notable exponent of the French mid-century post-Cubist movement. He was born to bourgeois parents from Burgogne in Paris, on March 21, 1913. At the age of 17, he enrolled and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, but remained for only two days, not adhering to the school's academic style. Instead, he spent the following six years at the École des Arts Appliqués, taking evening classes and embracing the contemporary Parisian art scene, all the while becoming recognized in its circles. Not able to support himself as an artist, by 1936 he found employment as a restorer at the Louvre, further honing his artistic skills. Paris of the period was dominated by an art trend that strongly favored abstraction. Following a group show at the Galerie Billet-Worms in 1935, art critic Waldemar George declared: "Let's be young again! Painting is not dead… Its course has not stopped. Forces Nouvelles is born." Venard contributed and initially adhered to the strict disciplines of the Forces Nouvelle group. But as with many of his fellow members, he soon abandoned it seeking individual expression. Following WWII, Venard rekindled friendships with past Forces Nouvelles members, joining Pierre Tal-Coat, André Marchand, André Civet...

Biography: Abram (Abraham) Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland. Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the University of Caen. In 1939 at...

Painter and teacher, displayed lithograph. He was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1892, he died in Geneva in 1983. Work on canvas Gilded wood frame 33,5 x 38,5 x 4 cm

Work on wood sold with frame, Size with the frame : 58x50 cm