La Galerie Cotignac Art

Early 20th Century watercolour of the view from a rural building out to a garden by A Ghillies. The painting is signed bottom left and there is a faint inscription and date to the b...

Early 20th Century watercolour of a wisteria in a rural courtyard by A Ghillies. The painting is signed bottom left and there is a faint inscription and date to the back of the paper...

Early 20th Century watercolour of a rural landscape by A Ghillies. The painting is signed bottom left and there is a faint inscription and date to the back of the paper. This striki...

Late 19th century oil on canvas copy of The King Drinks by Jacques Jordeans, currently held in the Louvre, Paris. The painting is not signed but is probably an academic copy painted ...

Contemporary Provençal beach scene in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed to the right side of the chassis. This artwork captures a serene beach scene wit...

Watercolour on paper of a group of ladies looking on to two windsurfers with a harbour beyond. The painting is not signed but is similar to the works of Raymond Moretti. Presented in...

View of Paris from an Art Deco garden looking towards Les Invalides and Sacre Coeur, oil on canvas by A Scottroy. The painting is signed and dated bottom left. The canvas is on a str...

Contemporary beach scene with seated lady in violet in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed to the side of the chassis. This artwork captures a serene beach ...

Drawing of a naked woman, French mid century pencil and watercolour on paper study by famous French sculptor Raymond Martin. The drawing is signed bottom left and is presented in a s...

Contemporary provençal beach scene in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed to the side of the chassis. This painting vividly captures a serene beach scene wh...

Contemporary beach scene in oil on linen by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right. This artwork captures an intimate beach scene where three figures are seated c...

Contemporary beach scene on the Côte d'Azur in oil on linen by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right. This artwork beautifully captures a serene beach scene with ...

Blue, Mid Century Modern interior view of an artists atelier, oil on board, by Maurice Ferdinand Perrot. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a plain white baton fram...

A contemporary Provençal landscape in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right. This artwork vividly captures a vibrant landscape, featuring a wind...

Contemporary Provençal landscape of cypress and olive trees in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right. This artwork captures a surreal landscape ...

A French Impressionist oil on canvas view of a river in parkland by the noted French artist Albert Uriet. The painting is signed and dated bottom right and is presented in a fine car...

Contemporary Provençal coastal landscape in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom left. This artwork brilliantly captures a vibrant seascape at sunset,...

A Provençal Coastal landscape in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right. This vibrant artwork captures a lone tree perched on a rocky cliff agai...

Mid 20th Century oil on canvas portrait of stylish young woman by the noted Franco Spanish artist Pere Modesto Luis Creixams. The painting is signed bottom left and presented in a ve...

A Provençal coastal landscape in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right. This artwork presents a vibrant, Impressionist-style landscape dominated...

1920s Garden view, mixed medium on paper, influenced by the garden paintings of Vuillard from the same period. The work is indistinctly signed, as yet undeciphered, bottom right. Pre...

Early 20th century watercolour and gouache of a horse and trap. Signed to the bottom left but artist unknown. This dynamic artwork showcases a striking horse pulling a two-wheeled c...

Expressionist Fauvist French oil on board view into a forest attributed to Jean-Jacques Philippon. The painting was acquired at the same time as a signed work by the artist also avai...

Expressionist Fauvist French oil on canvas view from a window to a balcony by Jean-Jacques Philippon. The painting is signed and dated bottom right and there is an exhibition label f...

Late 19th Century French Barbizon School oil on wood panel of poplar trees in a landscape by Richard. The painting is signed bottom left. The painting is on a quality chamfered panel. A very charming, almost impressionist, rendition of a line of iconic French trees in a landscape. Before them an earth drive has been ploughed up by the wheels of passing carts and horses. Richard has created a wonderful perspective that draws us in to the painting and he has created a contrast between the strong greens of the trees and fields against the whites and blues of the sky. The painting is reminiscent of the works of Monet from the 1890s. to whom the poplar trees were a continuing inspiration. The Barbizon school of painters was part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870. It takes its name from the village of Barbizon, France, on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, where many of the artists gathered. Most of their works were landscape paintings, but several of them also painted landscapes with farmworkers, and genre scenes of village life. Some of the most prominent features of this school are its tonal qualities, colour, loose brushwork, and softness of form. The leaders of the Barbizon school were: Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny, Jules Dupré, Constant Troyon, Charles Jacque, and Narcisse Virgilio Díaz. Jean-François Millet lived in Barbizon from 1849, but his interest in figures with a landscape backdrop sets him rather apart from the others. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was the earliest on the scene, first painting in the forest in 1829, but his work has a poetic and literary quality which sets him somewhat apart. Other artists associated with the school, often pupils of the main group, include: Henri Harpignies, Albert Charpin, François-Louis Français and Émile van Marcke. In 1824 the Salon de Paris exhibited works of John Constable, an English painter. His rural scenes influenced some of the younger artists of the time, moving them to abandon formalism and to draw inspiration directly from nature. Natural scenes became the subjects of their paintings rather than mere backdrops to dramatic events. During the Revolutions of 1848 artists gathered at Barbizon to follow Constable's ideas, making nature the subject of their paintings. The French landscape became a major theme of the Barbizon painters. Millet extended the idea from landscape to figures — peasant figures, scenes of peasant life, and work in the fields. In The Gleaners (1857), for example, Millet portrays three peasant women working at the harvest. Gleaners are poor people who are permitted to gather the remains after the owners of the field complete the main harvest. The owners (portrayed as wealthy) and their laborers are seen in the back of the painting. Millet shifted the focus and the subject matter from the rich and prominent to those at the bottom of the social ladders. To emphasize their anonymity and marginalized position, he hid their faces. The women's bowed bodies represent their everyday hard work. In the spring of 1829, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot came to Barbizon to paint in the Forest of Fontainebleau, he had first painted in the forest at Chailly in 1822. He returned to Barbizon in the autumn of 1830 and in the summer of 1831, where he made drawings and oil studies, from which he made a painting intended for the Salon of 1830; "View of the Forest of Fontainebleau'" (now in the National Gallery in Washington) and, for the salon of 1831, another "View of the Forest of Fontainebleau"'. While there he met the members of the Barbizon school: Théodore Rousseau, Paul Huet, Constant Troyon, Jean-François Millet, and the young Charles-François Daubigny. During the late 1860s, the Barbizon painters attracted the attention of a younger generation of French artists studying in Paris. Several of those artists visited Fontainebleau Forest to paint the landscape, including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille. In the 1870s those artists, among others, developed the art movement called Impressionism and practiced 'plein air' painting. In contrast, the main members of the school made drawings and sketches on the spot, but painted back in their studios. The Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh studied and copied several of the Barbizon painters as well, including 21 copies of paintings by Millet. He copied Millet more than any other artist. He also did three paintings in Daubigny's Garden. The Barbizon painters also had a profound impact on landscape painting in the United States. This included the development of the American Barbizon school by William Morris Hunt. Several artists who were also in, or contemporary to, the Hudson River School studied Barbizon paintings for their loose brushwork and emotional impact. A notable example is George Inness, who sought to emulate the works of Rousseau. Paintings from the Barbizon school also influenced landscape painting in California. The artist Percy Gray...

An abstract painting on musical notation paper, hommage to Kandinsky, by French artist Delisle. Signed bottom right. This dynamic artwork is an abstract composition characterized by...

Mid-century oil on canvas of a still-life tablescape by French artist F Descamps. This artwork presents a captivating still life composition characterized by bold geometric forms an...

A mid-century French oil on canvas landscape of the mountain Saint Victoire near Aix en Provence flanked by olive groves at twilight. This artwork presents a striking rural landscap...

Colourful Expressionist oil on canvas view of a market scene by A Monis. The painting is signed and dated bottom right and presented in a magnificent custom gilt wood frame. Provena...

Late 18th or early 19th century oil on canvas Rococo idylic pastoral scene. Though not signed the painting is of very fine quality and is presented in a plain gilt wood frame. This...

Contemporary cubist acrylic on canvas by French artist Lombardo. Signed bottom right. This artwork masterfully captures an abstract maritime scene, characterized by vivid geometric...

Late 20th century French acrylic on canvas of a grazing bull. Signed bottom right. Signature as yet undeciphered. This artwork compellingly captures the raw majesty of a bull standi...

Cubist acrylic and oil on board in the modern form of a stylised mannequin figure portrait by French artist Créqule. The painting is influenced by the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico...

Mid-century oil on canvas of a summer scene on the Côte d'Azur. The work is signed but the artist unknown. This artwork is a vibrant and eclectic composition that captures the essen...

A group of four Native North American carved wood and painted effigy figures, Hopi Katsina or Kachina dolls paddling their canoe. Four wonderfully playful, brightly coloured and hig...

Mid Century Expressionist oil on canvas seascape of the Mediterranean coastline at Cassis in the South of France. The painting is signed bottom left but as yet undeciphered. Title to the rear stretcher. Presented in a fine gilt and patinated custom wood frame. This stunning seascape captures the raw, untamed beauty of a rocky coastline with impeccable detail. The painting uses a rich palette of blues and earthy browns to depict the tumultuous waves crashing against rugged cliffs. The artist's skilful use of texture and brushwork brings the scene to life, with the churning sea appearing almost animated in its movement. The contrast between the cool, turbulent water and the warm, solid rocks creates a dynamic tension, drawing the viewer's eye along the coast. Unique to this piece is the artist’s ability to convey the mood of nature’s relentless power while also highlighting the serene beauty of the ocean. The careful layering of colours and precise composition make this artwork a captivating interpretation of nature’s untamed forces. Some of the composition and use of colours is reminiscent of the works of Achille-Émile Othon Friesz...

Early 20th Century oil on canvas view of Collioure in the south of France, home to the Fauvists. The painting is initial signed E.L.Y bottom right (as yet undeciphered). The location...

Mid Century oil on canvas landscape painting by Franco Hungarian artist Elemer Vagh Weinmann. The painting is signed bottom right and is presented in a custom gilt frame with a white...

Contemporary expressionist/fauvist oil on linen of a Provençal landscape by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right and presented in a silver and black case frame. ...

Mid century watercolour view of a gateway into the ancient walls of Rome, Italy, by G Tosy. The painting is signed bottom left and presented in a plain wood frame with a hand cut mou...

French fauvist Marine Landscape, probably the Mediterranean, mid century oil on board. The painting is signed bottom right but as yet undeciphered. Presented in a period chip carved ...

Mid Century French Lithograph and Pochoir print on velum Arches paper after Andre Derain from the 1961 editions d'Art du Lion from the original painting of 1946. The work is signed '...

Watercolour landscape of a lake and surrounding mountains by Nano. The painting is signed bottom left and presented in a fine period gilt frame under glass. This painting portrays a...

Mid 20th Century Modern oil on canvas cityscape of Place du Tertre and the Basilica Sacré-Cœur in Montmartre, Paris by Augustin Francois Guille aka Archiguille a close friend and col...

Mid century French oil on board street scene. The painting is not signed but is presented in a patinated wood frame. A painting which captures a serene village scene, dominated by a...

Early 20th Century oil on board interior bar scene by Simon Joseph Simon-Auguste. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a fine gilt carved wood Montparnasse frame. The...

Early 20th Century French oil on canvas landscape of a picnic on a riverbank by René Albert Raphaël Gouin. The painting is signed bottom right and there are stencil stamps to the bac...

French 19th Century Lapis Lazuli set box with engine engraved gilt mounts, in Pomponne which is an alloy developed by two goldsmiths, Turgot and Daumy, who set up shop at the Hôtel d...

French 19th Century striated agate box with fine engine engraved gilt mounts and base, in Pomponne which is an alloy developed by two goldsmiths, Turgot and Daumy, who set up shop at...

Set of three French 19th Century oval agate boxes with fine engine engraved gilt mounts in Pomponne which is an alloy developed by two goldsmiths, Turgot and Daumy, who set up shop a...

French 19th Century rectangular agate box with fine engine engraved gilt mounts in gilt brass or Pomponne which is an alloy developed by two goldsmiths, Turgot and Daumy, who set up...

French 19th Century oval agate box with fine engine engraved gilt mounts in Pomponne which is an alloy developed by two goldsmiths, Turgot and Daumy, who set up shop at the Hôtel de ...

French 19th Century oval agate box with fine engine engraved gilt mounts in Pomponne which is an alloy developed by two goldsmiths, Turgot and Daumy, who set up shop at the Hôtel de ...

Vintage French folk art, Early 19th century, painted wood wedding, hope or bridal chest, for the wedding of Charles Herbert Frederic and Corinne de Blaru in 1848. The names and dates...

Pencil, chalk and watercolour on card depiction of a group of harlequins by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed and dated bottom right. This vivid artwork showcases an ener...

Contemporary Abstract Expressionist acrylic and oil on canvas Hommage to Léger by Italian artist Albino Palamara. Signed to the reverse. A strikingly colourful and energetic Abstra...

Oil on card view of a street in Bruges by Jacques Buecher. The painting is signed bottom left and there is an exhibition label to the back of the board. This artwork portrays a capt...

1930s French Impressionist Barbizon School oil on panel view of church spires and palm trees by Georges Guerin (1910-1984). Signed to the bottom right. Dominating the composition a...

1930s French Impressionist Barbizon School oil on panel view of a wooded landscape with autumn colours by Georges Guerin (1910-1984). The painting is signed top right to the back of ...

1930s French Impressionist Barbizon School oil on panel view of a church in a bucolic landscape by Georges Guerin (1910-1984). The painting is signed bottom right and also signed top...