Young Girl at the Mirror by PABLO PICASSO (French School) By universal consent, Picasso is the master of the modern school of Paris, the leader of a group of international artists whose pictures transcend the con fines of time and place, and in many instances, ignore the outward behavior of man. He has consistently …
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THE SPIRIT OF THE DEAD WATCHING – Paul Gaugan (French School) This Excellent Quality Print is taken from A Treasury of Art Masterpieces Circa 1939 – Over 80 yrs Old A fabulous collection of American Artists and their Masterpieces, brought together by Thomas Craven in Glorious Full Colour Lithographs A Beautiful Bookplate/Lithograph , if …
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The Funeral of Procion by NICOLAS POUSSIN {French School} POUSSIN is the first of the French academicians, and to his own countrymen, one of the monarchs of painting. Born in Normandy of poor estate, he went to Paris in his youth to study art, a starveling idealist filled with high thoughts of the historic …
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The Embarkation for Cythera by ANTOINE WATTEAU {French School} WATTEAU, the son of a Flemish artisan, wandered to Paris in his youth, passed through ten poverty-stricken years and ten more of increasing prosperity, marred by ill-health and melancholy, and died of consumption at the age of thirty-seven. Thrown between two civilizations, he contemplated the dying …
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Luncheon of the Boating Party by PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR {French School} Luncheon of the Boating Party (Le Dejeuner des canotiers) was painted at the beginning of Renoir’s maturity, before his preoccupation with billowy nudes had robbed him of his interest in portraiture and scenes of public gaiety. No other painter, not even the most domestic …
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La Rochelle by JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT {French School} COROT, the happiest of painters, was born in the midst of the French Revolu tion, but the paroxysm left no mark upon him. In politics a conservative; in art, a disciple of Claude, this simplehearted, generous man lived his four score years in that blissful …
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Bathers by PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR {French School} To Renoir the nude was as natural as a bowl of fruit was to Cezanne. His nudes are among the few in modern art that have any meaning: they are not studio exhibitionists; nor are they distorted scarecrows or harlots. Out of the naked woman he created a type–a …
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Narcissus and Echo by CLAUDE LORRAIN (French School) CLAUDE GELEE, called Claude Lorrain from his native province, was an un lettered baker with an idolatrous love for nature and for painting. Born of obscure parents and left an orphan at the age of twelve, he moved to Freiburg on the Rhine with his brother …
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Mlle Charlotte Du Val D’Ognes by JACQUES LOUIS DAVID {French School} IN the frenzied epoch of the Revolution, the French politicians, governing by rationalism and ideology, drafted laws for Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, as derived from a study of the ancients. Following the Red current of the time, the political artists, also by processes …
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Madame Cezanne in the Conservatory by PAUL CEZANNE {French School} This Excellent Quality Print is taken from A Treasury of Art Masterpieces Circa 1939 – Over 80 yrs Old A fabulous collection of American Artists and their Masterpieces, brought together by Thomas Craven in Glorious Full Colour Lithographs A Beautiful Bookplate/Lithograph , if you …
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