La Galerie Cotignac Landscape Paintings

Fauvist inspired, colourful oil on paper mounted onto canvas of a garden by Russian artist Anatoly Zverev. Signed and dated to the bottom right and presented in a gold wood frame. T...

French oil on canvas Mediterranean landscape by Vincent Rallo. The painting is signed, R Vincent, bottom centre. This charming painting vividly captures a tranquil Mediterranean coa...

Mid century French oil on canvas view of the New York City skyline by André Lwoff a noted Nobel prize winning chemist and later artist. The painting is signed bottom right and presen...

French Fauvist landscape drawing on card by Auguste Chabaud. The drawing is signed bottom left and carries the atelier stamp and reference numbers to the back. Presented in a fine bl...

Pair of Mid Century colourful views of Venetian piazzas, watercolour and gouache on craft paper mounted on paper by Pierre Pruvost. The paintings are signed bottom right/left and tit...

Mid Century colourful view of a Venetian piazza, watercolour and gouache on craft paper mounted on paper by Pierre Pruvost. The painting is signed bottom left and titled. This charm...

Mid Century colourful view of a Venetian piazza, watercolour and gouache on craft paper mounted on paper by Pierre Pruvost. The painting is signed bottom right and titled. This char...

Colourful Fauvist inspired iconic view of Rome, Oil on canvas paper by Pierre Pruvost. The painting is signed bottom left and dated and titled to the back of the paper. This artwork...

French landscape, Expressionist oil on board by Jean Arene. The painting is signed bottom left, titled dated and signed to the back and is presented in the original 'Arene' frame sup...

French, large mid century oil on paper, Post Impressionist Fauvist landscape with trees in blossom by Jean Perret. The painting is signed bottom and centre...

French, mid century oil on board Fauvist landscape by Jean Perret. The painting is signed bottom right. This vivid landscape painting captures the essence...

French, large mid century oil on canvas, Post Impressionist Fauvist landscape by Jean Perret. The painting is signed bottom right. This wonderful, vibrant...

French, mid century oil on canvas Fauvist landscape by Jean Perret. The painting is signed bottom right. This vibrant and colourful painting captures the ...

Late 20th Century oil on canvas view of buildings in a rural landscape with snow capped mountains by Franco British artist Isabell Pardoe. The painting is not signed but came directl...

Late 20th Century oil on canvas view of a rural landscape down to the sea by Franco British artist Isabell Pardoe. The painting is not signed but came directly from the artist's atel...

French gouache and watercolour marine view of the islands off Cannes in the south of France by Louis Germain. The painting is signed bottom left and is presented in a plain wood fram...

Mid 20th century oil on board of two ladies mending fishing nets by Nguyen Van BINH-CIRLOT. The painting is signed and located top right and presented in a gilt patinated wood frame...

Late 20th Century oil on canvas view of a rural landscape by Franco British artist Isabell Pardoe. The painting is not signed but came directly from the artist's atelier. Isabell Pa...

Early 20th Century oil on board French fauvist landscape by Paul Guillaume. The painting is signed bottom left, Guillaume Paul, and presented in a patinated wood frame. This colourf...

Fishing boats and harbour scene naive folk art, Mid Century oil on wood panel. The painting is monograph signed bottom right (as yet undeciphered) and presented in a plain patinated ...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in a landscape, Mid century oil on wood panel. This vibrant and charming painting vividly portrays a whimsical forest scene featuring Snow White and ...

Geraniums and flowers. French Mid Century oil on canvas view of flowers and a cottage by Edouard Le Saout. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a custom wood frame. ...

Late 20th Century oil on canvas view of the colourful buildings and roofs in St Tropez, South of France, by Franco British artist Isabell Pardoe. The painting is not signed but came ...

Early 20th century watercolour on paper of a tranquil river, bridge and village scene. The painting is presented in a plain wood frame under glass. This charming watercolour portra...

A contemporary Abstract Expressionist Color-Field acrylic on canvas by French artist, Christian Manoury. Signed to the back of the canvas. Inspired by the wonderful light in the Sou...

Paris, Montmartre in the snow, the Cabaret au Lapin Agile favourite of Picasso, Modigliani and Utrillo, late mid century French oil on board by Jean Mesturini. The painting is signed...

Paris street scene, view to Sacre Coeur, mid century oil on canvas. The painting is signed bottom right (as yet undeciphered). This captivating painting effortlessly captures the ch...

Mid-century oil on board of a Mediterranean coastal scene by Janoti. Signed bottom right. This artwork beautifully captures a sunlit Mediterranean landscape, dominated by the bold v...

Painting of a church or monastery in a garden, mid century, oil on canvas by Reginald Schoedelin. The painting is indistinctly signed bottom right, but there is a notation and attrib...

Venice, Italy, mid century urban view 0f daily life in this iconic city by Henri Levasseur. The painting is signed and dated bottom right and titled bottom left. Presented in a fine ...

Highly colorful fauvist coastal and forest scene in oil on board by Belgian artist Antoine Giroux. Presented in a black tray frame. This vibrant artwork captures a serene natural co...

Contemporary Provençal beach scene in turquoise and yellow in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed to the right side of the chassis. This artwork features a ...

Contemporary provençal landscape of a vineyard in oil on linen by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right and presented in a black and silver caisse americaine. Thi...

Contemporary provençal landscape of cypress trees in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right and presented in a black and silver caisse americaine f...

Contemporary provençal landscape in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom right and presented in a black and silver caisse americaine frame. This vibra...

The Piazza San Marco and the Doge's Palace, Venice, oil on board, by Mario Bonamici. The painting is signed bottom right and titled to the back board. Presented in a custom gilt fram...

Algerian Mid century oil on board landscape by Franco Algerian artist André Boureau a pupil of Othon Freize. The painting is signed bottom right and is presented in a custom patinate...

Contemporary Provençal landscape in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. This vibrant artwork presents a dynamic landscape, characterized by swirling brushstrokes ...

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...