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Botanical watercolour and gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts flowers in red, blue and green. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design. Dimensions: Framed: 19.5"x19.5" Unframed: 12"x12" Provenance: Private collection of works by Raoul Dufy for Bianchini Ferier Bianchini Ferrier Collection - Christie's London - July 2001 SF Fall Show Raoul Dufy was one of a family of nine children, including five sisters and a younger brother, Jean Dufy, also destined to become a painter. Their father was an accountant in the employ of a major company in Le Havre. The Dufy family was musically gifted: his father was an organist, as was his brother Léon, and his youngest brother Gaston was an accomplished flautist who later worked as a music critic in Paris. Raoul Dufy's studies were interrupted at the age of 14, when he had to contribute to the family income. He took a job with an importer of Brazilian coffee, but still found time from 1892 to attend evening courses in drawing and composition at the local college of fine arts under Charles Marie Lhullier, former teacher of Othon Friesz and Georges Braque. He spent his free time in museums, admiring the paintings of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre and The Justice of Trajan in Rouen. A municipal scholarship enabled him to leave for Paris in 1900, where he lodged initially with Othon Friesz. He was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, whose innate conservatism prompted Dufy to remark later that it was 'good to be at the Beaux-Arts providing one knew one could leave'. And leave he did, four years later, embarking with friends and fellow students on the rounds of the major Paris galleries - Ambroise Vollard, Durand-Ruel, Eugène Blot and Berheim-Jeune. For Dufy and his contemporaries, Impressionism represented a rejection of sterile academism in favour of the open-air canvases of Manet, the light and bright colours of the Impressionists, and, beyond them, the daringly innovative work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Dufy was an out-and-out individualist, however, and was not tempted to imitate any of these artists. He produced, between 1935 and 1937, Fée Electricité (Spirit of Electricity), the emblem for the French utilities company Electricité de France (EDF). Dufy visited the USA for the first time in 1937, as a member of the Carnegie Prize jury. In 1940, the outbreak of war (and his increasingly rheumatic condition) persuaded him to settle in Nice. When he eventually returned to Paris 10 years later, his rheumatism had become so debilitating that he immediately left for Boston to follow a course of pioneering anti-cortisone treatment. He continued working, however, spending time first in Harvard and then in New York City before moving to the drier climate of Tucson, Arizona. The cortisone treatment was by and large unsuccessful, although he did recover the use of his fingers. He returned to Paris in 1951 and decided to settle in Forcalquier, where the climate was more clement. Within a short time, however, he was wheelchair-bound. He died in Forcalquier in March 1953 and was buried in Cimiez. Between 1895 and 1898, Raoul Dufy painted watercolours of landscapes near his native Le Havre and around Honfleur and Falaise. By the turn of the century, however, he was already painting certain subjects that were to become hallmarks of his work - flag-decked Parisian cityscapes, Normandy beaches teeming with visitors, regattas and the like, including one of his better-known early works, Landing Stage at Ste-Adresse. By 1905-1906 Friesz, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen and Rouault were described collectively as Fauves (the wild beasts). What they had in common was a desire to innovate, but they felt constrained nonetheless to meet formally to set out the guiding principles of what promised to be a new 'movement'. Dufy quickly established that those principles were acceptable; moreover, he was most impressed by one particular painting by Henri Matisse ( Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness) which, to Dufy, embodied both novelty and a sense of artistic freedom. Dufy promptly aligned himself with the Fauves. Together with Albert Marquet in particular, he spent his time travelling the Normandy coast and painting views similar...

Signed watercolour on paper landscape by American post impressionist painter Maurice Brazil Prendergast. The work depicts children playing on the beach in Saint Malo, France as boats sail in the blue sea and white clouds role through the sky overhead. This work has remained in the Prendergast family for 3 generations and depicts a rare view of Saint-Malo executed during Prendergast's visit to the french coastal town in 1907 Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 21"x22" Unframed: 13'x14" Proveance: The collection of Charles Prendergast (1863-1948) The collection of Eugénie Prendergast-Van Kemmel (1895-1994) -wife and inheritor of the estate of Charles Prendergast The collection of Henri Van Kemmel (Lille, 1903-1963) - cousin of Eugenie Prendergast
- Madame Henri Van Kemmel Maurice Prendergast came with his family to Boston in 1861. Working in a textile store, Maurice Prendergast was at first self-taught in painting, making souvenir cards and shop signs. He went to Britain in 1886, then to Paris in 1891 and registered at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens, Benjamin-Constant, and Charles Blanc as teachers, working also with Gustave Courtois at the Académie Colarossi. More importantly he saw the Impressionists’ paintings and the Nabis at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. He returned to the United States in 1895, settling in Winchester (Massachusetts) and went frequently to New York. In 1898 he again went to Europe where he stayed until 1900, visiting Paris, Florence, Siena, Rome, Capri, and Venice, where he spent six months. Between 1907 and the beginning of World War I he went again four times to Europe but never returned there after the war. In New York where he finally settled, with William Glackens, Robert Henri, and John Sloan among others, Prendergast was one of the members ofThe Eight, gathered by Robert Henri to counter the pervading academicism. The group exhibited in 1908 at the Macbeth Galleries and took part in the Armory Show of 1913. After that Prendergast did not exhibit again with the group. In 1914 he left Boston definitively for New York. Prendergast was in his thirties before he began to devote himself to painting. In his late beginnings he painted in the open air as the Impressionists did, mainly in watercolours with clear brushstrokes and an elegant virtuosity recalling his then admiration for James Whistler and Claude Monet. Between 1892 and 1905 he carried out two hundred monotypes, a technique of which he was the undisputed master in America at that time and which expressed the influence of Japanisme. During his stays in France he painted views of Paris, but also Brittany and Normandy. In this period, in 1896, he was chosen to illustrate My Lady Nicotine by Matthew Barrie. During his third stay in Europe, from 1898 to 1900, he painted in Paris, at Saint-Malo, and mainly in Venice, where, influenced by Vittore Carpaccio he introduced brightly coloured banners into his animated compositions. In oils he painted slowly, touching up his paintings by superimposed brushstrokes, sometimes over several years. He chose to use the divided stroke in an early period, a technique which had similarities with Post-Impressionism. After his travels in Europe and his discovery of Paul Cézanne, he evolved in the direction of the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat, placing little dots of colours with a knife, then of the Nabis and even later Fauvism, painting large brushed surfaces in bright colours. After 1899, his Ponte della Paglia in Venice freed itself from strict divisionism, adopting the dense composition in vertically superimposed planes of the Nabis. Like the members of the group of eight, he took his subjects from the daily life of ordinary people, in scenes in the parks or on the beaches of New England, picnics or sometimes circuses. Nevertheless the happy vision that he had of the world separated him strongly from the evolution that led his companions to paint the most miserable and populous milieus, which gave them the name of The Ashcan School. His compositions are arranged in surfaces superimposed vertically, without depth; while the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists were influenced by the layout of Japanese prints, Prendergast was inspired more by Persian miniatures. The decorative elements and the build-up of characters in crowds are placed frontally, like garlands on a tapestry, particularly as he seeks a texture effect, covered entirely by the subject without any empty spaces. His attraction to colours caused him to research all the motifs that he introduced into these compositions: umbrellas, parasols, balloons, draperies. In 1911–1912, he experimented with pastel and treated new subjects, nudes and still-lifes. After 1913, in sympathy with the Symbolists, he put nude figures and everyday characters side by side in the same composition. In his last years, and above all in the watercolours, he discarded the divided stroke and applied larger brushstrokes, similar to the technique of Henri Matisse. Fidelity to the leisurely settings and elegant grooming of the period gave his works, apart from their artistic value, a charming sociological aspect. Singular, almost marginal in his time, his paintings stand out by the density of their composition, in form and colouring, characterised by the accumulation of detail, minutiae of scenery, the serried ranks of people that animate them, the chromatic polyphony of elegance, umbrellas, parasols, and flags. He is a complete painter, particularly generous, who would never be happy to provide only samples of his art. Following Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Maurice Prendergast is one of the most interesting and original Post-Impressionist American painters, and perhaps marks exactly the boundary between the 19th and the 20th centuries. He was considered to be an ‘old master’ from 1920 on, and his works appeared in very many exhibitions of modern American painting. He had his first solo exhibition in 1897 at the Chase Gallery of Boston, where his works were noticed by Madame Montgomery Sears, who made a collection, taking the advice of Mary Cassatt. In 1915 six paintings and watercolours exhibited at the Carroll Gallery of New York established his success and drew the great collectors to him, among whom were Albert Barnes and John Quinn. Group Exhibitions 1974, Ten Americans, Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York 1976, Art of Impulse and Color, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park (Maryland) 1982, American Impressionists, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (also presented at the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris) 1999, Town and Country: American Artists, 1870–1920 (Ville et campagne: les artistes américains, 1870–1920), Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny 2002, Japonisme in America: Works on Paper, 1880–1930 (Le Japonisme en Amérique: œuvres sur papier, 1880–1930), Musée d’Art Américain/Terra Foundation for the Arts, Giverny 2007, American Impressionists: Painters of Light and the Modern Landscape, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 2008, Coming of Age: American Art 1850–1950, Paintings from the Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 2008, Portrait of a Lady: Paintings and Photographs of American Women in France 1870–1915, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux Solo Exhibitions 1934, Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1938, Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Maurice and Charles Prendergast, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA 1960, Maurice Prendergast, 1859–1924, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1990, Art Institute of Chicago 2009, Prendergast in Italy, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Museum and Gallery Holdings Andover, MA (Addison Gal. of American Art): At the Shore, St. Malo No. 1 and 2 (c. 1907, watercolour and graphite on wove paper, 2 works); Along the Cove (1910–1913, oil on canvas); seven sketches of Paris (1893, oil on wood) Chicago (AI): In the Park (1918–1919) Chicago (Terra Foundation for American Art Collection): Festa del redentore (c. 1899, monotype); The Opera Cloak...

Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Leon Detroy. The piece is painted in a divisionist style and depicts blossoming apple trees in an orcha...

Signed, titled and dated cubist oil on canvas by French painter Andre Masson. The work depicts colourful insects. Signature: Signed lower right and titled and dated 1946 verso Dim...

Signed and dated oil on panel seascape by French post impressionist painter Gustave Cariot. The work depicts a view of sail boats and steam boats out at sea in the bay of Saint-Malo ...

Signed and dated oil on canvas seascape painting by French impressionist painter Maxime Maufra. The piece depicts a ship sailing on the horizon in a stormy sea at evening time. Sign...

Signed and titled oil on canvas circa 1990 by French painter Hugues Claude Pissarro. The piece depicts a woman in a red dress collecting apples in an orchard. Signature: Signed lowe...

Signed still life oil on canvas circa 1920 by French impressionist painter Leon Detroy. The work depicts a ceramic vase filled with flowers in reds, pinks and yellows and set agains...

Signed figurative oil on panel circa 1938 by post impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres. This wonderful piece depicts people marching to Prizen in the former Yugoslavia. Mar...

Signed and titled oil on panel figures in landscape by American painter Anne Estelle Rice. This beautiful and colourful piece depicts groups of elegantly dressed people enjoying tea ...

Signed oil on canvas portrait painting by Argentine modernist painter Alfredo Guttero. The work is a head and shoulders portrait of a woman with black hair and wearing a shawl. Sign...

Signed oil on canvas figures in landscape circa 1950 by French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The work depicts doing a late summer harvest in Provence, France. Signature: Si...

Signed fauvist oil on canvas landscape by French painter Louis Valtat. The work depicts the floral gardens in front of the Orangery at the Chateau de Versailles. Signature: Signed l...

Signed and dated oil on canvas seascape by French post impressionist painter Achille-Emile Othon Friesz. The piece depicts a view of Le Havre, a port city in Normandy, France, locate...

Signed, titled and dated oil on canvas figures in landscape by post-impressionist painter Jules Le Ray. The piece depicts two women on a top of a cliff overlooking the port of La Mor...

Signed and dated figures in landscape oil on canvas by French impressionist painter Maximilien Luce. The piece depicts a view of the road leading into the village of Mereville in Ess...

Signed oil on paper laid on board figures in landscape circa 1890 by French Neo-Impressionist painter Albert Dubois-Pillet. This pointillist piece depicts and elegant couple enjoying...

Signed figures in riverscape oil on canvas by French Barbizon painter Leon Augustin Lhermitte. The piece depicts a rural landscape with washerwomen in traditional Breton clothing was...

Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1930 by German post impressionist painter Max Clarenbach. The work depicts a winter scene, with snow laying thick on the ground. To the foregroun...

Signed oil on artist's board riverscape circa 1910 by Belgian neo-impressionist painter Jenny Montigny. The piece depicts a view of the River Lys in winter as the sun sets. The river...

Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Elisee Maclet. The work depicts a view of the coastal city of Arles in the South of France from the wat...

Signed, dedicated and dated oil on panel landscape by American Impressionist painter Conrad Wise Chapman. The work depicts a lakeside view of the sun rising above the mountains in th...

Indistinctly monogrammed Nabis school oil on canvas circa 1915. The work depicts a rocky shoreline with the blue ocean beyond and a clear sky overhead. Signature: Indistinctly monog...

Signed oil on canvas figures in landscape circa 1920 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. The work depicts an autumnal scene of the the Porte Saint-Denis (St ...

Signed oil on canvas still life in landscape circa 1980 by sought after French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The work depicts a view of a harbour from beyond the open green ...

Signed and dated seascape oil on paper laid on canvas by French impressionist painter Maximilien Luce. The piece depicts a view of the sea at Honfleur, a commune in the Calvados depa...

Signed oil on board figures in landscape by popular French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton. The work depicts a mother holding her small child's hand as they walk towards ...

Signed pointillist oil on canvas landscape by French Neo-Impressionist painter Yvonne Canu. The work depicts a view of revellers on a boat travelling along the River Seine in Paris, ...

Signed oil on canvas figures in riverscape circa 1910 by sought after French impressionist painter Pierre Eugene Montezin. The work depicts women dressed in summer dresses and sunhat...

Signed figurative oil on canvas circa 1915 by French neo-impressionist painter Achille Lauge. The piece depicts a view of a farmer sowing seeds in field on a bright spring day. Sign...

Signed oil on canvas figures in landscape by French impressionist painter Jean-Francois Raffaelli. The work depicts two young girls with their mother in a landscape overlooking boats...

Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1890 by French post impressionist painter Albert Charles Lebourg. The work depicts a view of a road to Hondouville, a commune in nothern France, ...

Signed figures in landscape oil on board by Australian-American impressionist painter Richard Hayley Lever. The work depicts brightly coloured sailing boats in the harbour of St Ives...

Signed figures in landscape oil on board circa 1905 by Australian-American impressionist painter Richard Hayley Lever. The work depicts fishing vessels docked in the harbour in Douar...

Signed oil on panel circa 1895 by French modernist painter Louis Anquetin. The piece depicts three white horses. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 16.5"x20" Unframe...

Signed and dated oil on board landscape by French post impressionist painter Paul Madeline. This beautiful work depicts a view of the picturesque port of Doelan in Britanny, France. ...

Signed and dated oil on canvas landscape by French impressionist painter Victor Alfred Paul Vignon. The piece depicts a view of scenery in Oise, a department in the north of France, ...

Signed oil on canvas laid on board landscape by American Impressionist painter Abram Molarsky. The work, painted in mostly pastel shades of green, blue and purple depicts a view of b...

Signed oil on canvas landscape by Belgian post impressionist painter Modest Huys. This stunning piece depicts a view of The Great Park in Oudenaarde, Belgium. Couples can be seen enjoying the park through gaps in the tall trees. A wonderful piece in the artist's unique style. Signature: Signed lower right and inscribed verso Dimensions: Framed: 28.5"x35" Unframed: 21.5"x28" Provenance: Exhibited : The Royal Scottish Academy under the section for "Distinguished Foreigners" in 1914 (original acceptance letter verso) Modest Huys (25 October 1874, in Zulte – 30 January 1932, in Zulte) was a Flemish impressionist and luminist painter, who is regarded as one of the greatest Belgian painters of the 20th century. From a young age, Modest Huys worked in his father's painting and decorating business and later studied at the "Gentse Nijverheidschool" (Ghent Industrial School). In 1891 or 1892, he came into contact with Emile Claus, who encouraged his artistic inclinations. In 1900, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts where his teachers were Eugène Joors and Frans Van Leemputten but he never completed his studies. It was about this time that he became lifelong friends with the author Stijn Streuvels. In 1902, he debuted at the Sint-Lucasgilde in Kortrijk and began to exhibit more widely. He spent time in Meetjesland, painting landscapes. From 1905, he participated in the exhibitions of Vie et Lumière...

Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1910 by French post impressionist painter Raymond Thibesart. The piece depicts a view of a small rural village deep in winter. The roof tops and ...

Signed fauvist oil on canvas laid on panel riverscape circa 1925 by French painter Louis Valtat. The work depicts a boat being rowed on the Bois de Boulogne lake in Paris, France. It...

Signed and dated oil on panel landscape by sought after French post impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres. This beautiful piece depicts a view of Auribeau-sur-Siagne, is a c...

Signed fauvist oil on canvas laid on panel riverscape circa 1925 by French painter Louis Valtat. The work depicts several boats being rowed on River Seine in Bois de Boulogne - a for...

Signed and dated figures in cityscape oil on panel by French impressionist painter Amedee Marcel-Clement. The work depicts a view of the Pont Neuf bridge that runs over the River Sei...

Signed and dated neo-impressionist landscape oil on canvas by French painter Leo Marie Gausson. Gausson painted this picturesque view of then fields above Triel-sur-Seine, a small to...

Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1940 by French post impressionist painter Raymond Thibesart. The piece depicts a lake on a grey misty day. There is a bare tree in the front of t...

Botanical gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts a study of apples and pears. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design. Dimensio...

Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas c.1920 by French post-impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres. The piece depicts a harbour at Collioure, a commune in the southern Fr...

Signed oil on board riverscape circa 1950 by French Post Impressionist painter Georges Charles Robin. The work depicts a view of the Dordogne riv...

Signed and dated post impressionist watercolor on paper seascape by French painter Jean Dufy. This colourful piece depicts sail boats at the port of Le Havre in France - a commercial...

Signed still life oil on canvas circa 1930 by French impressionist painter Leon Detroy. The work depicts a vase filled with roses and peonies in deep reds and pinks. Signature: Sign...

Signed and dated Art Nouveau oil on board figures in landscape by Romanian painter Michel Simonidy. The piece depicts an autumnal scene with two women standing beside a fountain at n...

Signed post impressionist figures in landscape oil circa 1980 by French painter Max Michel Agostini. The work depicts park-goers on a path beside a lake on a sunny spring day. There ...

Signed and titled post impressionist figures in landscape oil circa 1980 by French painter Max Michel Agostini. The work depicts park-goers on a path beside a lake on a sunny spring ...

Signed and dated post impressionist figurative oil on canvas by French painter Ferdinand du Puigaudeau. This beautiful and large work depicts dozens of churchgoers in traditional Bre...

Signed and dated post impressionist figure in landscape watercolour on paper by French painter Jean Dufy. The work depicts a view of a grand house behind a wall with a large gated en...

Signed portrait oil on canvas circa 1898 by French neo-impressionist painter Achille Lauge. The piece is a beautifully textured with impasto and is a portrait of a French station mas...

Signed figures in landscape pastel on canvas circa 1910 by French Barbizon painter Leon Augustin Lhermitte. The piece depicts a rural landscape with two women in traditional Breton c...

Signed oil on board landscape by French impressionist painter Maximilien Luce. The work depicts a view of rolling French countryside on a summer's day with white clouds contrasting t...

Fauvist oil on board landscape circa 1905 by British painter Robert Polhill Bevan. The piece depicts a view of farm in Sussex. The red-roofed farmhouses are nestled between lush gree...