Tableaux

26 Jun
Still life with cake

Maurice Soudan 1878-1948 Oil on panel 44 x 52 cm mounted in a beautiful silver Art-Deco frame with tiers 58 x 65 cm. Signed Mce Soudan, dirty varnish, small accidents on the frame. This beautiful Belgian artist went into exile in Toulouse during the First World War where he left pivotal works between the Fauves

11 Aug
Red-haired lady with glasses

German Taibo Gonzales 1889 La Corogne -1919 Paris Oil on canvas 41 X 33 cm, mounted in a contemporary gilt frame 51 X 43 cm. In this rare portrait of a Lady with Spectacles, when he was barely 16 years old, we find the intensity of the touch and the psychological depth which make us

11 Aug
crouting nude

Serge Ponomarew Indian ink with brush on paper approximately 40 X 20 cm (irregular cut), signed lower right, numbered label and stamp of the workshop sale in L’Isle -Adam in 2003 on the back. Sergiusz Zygmunt Ponomarew was born in Minsk into a Russian-Polish family before coming to study sculpture in Paris in 1932, obtaining

11 Aug
Italian villa

José Maria Jardines 1862 – 1914 ? Oil on canvas 38 X 46 cm, mounted in a gilded frame 49 X 56 cm. Signed lower right, not very legible: thanks to Guillaume who identified it for me! This beautiful villa in its flowery park under a blue sky is very pleasant and luminous, this precise

20 Jun
Waves and seagulls

Jean Louis Paguenaud 1876 – 1952 Oil on panel 48 X 74 cm, mounted in a superb contemporary Parnassian frame 64 X 88 cm. You know that I particularly like these “sea portraits” in which Gueït, Auguin, Gélos, Ogier, Roby and precisely Paguenaud have excelled, to name only those who have worked in our region

20 Jun
Carpet merchant on the beach

Raymond Diedrickx 1904 – 1978 Oil on hard cardboard 48.5 X 65.5 cm mounted in a gilt baguette with white marie-louise 64 X 75 cm. Slightly more recent than the other works that we present, probably the end of the 1950s, this carpet merchant unrolling his wares in front of a couple he is trying

20 Jun
At the restaurant

Véronique Wirbel 1950 – 1990 Mixed technique (gouache, charcoal and collage) on paper 158 X 129 cm, mounted by the edges on a new canvas frame for its protection. We have chosen to present it without glass or frame for transport, but it is obvious that it will be necessary for display. Signed and dated

30 May
Young girl with pearls

Attributed to Joseph Marie Vien Le Jeune 1761 – 1848 Oil on oval canvas 60 X 46 cm, mounted in an Empire frame with oval view 80 X 65 cm with worn gilding. Originally a shorter oval, the canvas was enlarged by a crescent moon at the top to fit this frame.  Our lovely young

15 May
Still life with fried eggs

H. Dupont 19th century Oil on canvas 38 X 46 cm, mounted in a gilded frame 53 X 61 cm. Two small very well done restorations visible on the back. Characteristic of the French School at the end of the 19th century, our still life is signed by an H. Dupont who seems unknown to

15 May
Italian landscape

Conrad Peter Schreiber 1816 – 1894 Gouache 58 X 41 cm, mounted by a marie-louise in a gilded Empire frame 75 X 58 cm. Signed and dated 1863 lower left. Like many other European artists, the author made “Le Grand Tour” which included Italy as an obligatory stage to try to grasp its wonders… But


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