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CLAUDE VENARD (1913 - 1999)
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CLAUDE VENARD (1913 - 1999)
The Galette
Oil on canvas, signed lower right, titled on the back, stamped Atelier Claude Venard on the back
65 x 81 cm
25 19/32 x 31 57/64 in.
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Toulon region
Claude Venard
Claude Venard (1913-1999) was a self-taught French painter, who forged his artistic education by restoring paintings in the Louvre Museum. From 1935 onwards, he appeared in exhibitions devoted to modern art from all over the world. In 1936, he participated in an exhibition in favour of a new artistic movement derived from the avant-garde, "Les forces nouvelles", advocating a return to the strict and traditional principles of craftsmanship, which included the artists Pierre Tal Coat and André Marchand. But Claude Venard eventually broke away from this group and developed a personal style in the vein of post-cubism. He accentuates the colours, applied in a straightforward manner with a palette knife, thus creating a "raw" material at the heart of a geometric aesthetic. The colours are sharp, bright and luminous, enhanced by the contours and shadows of absolute black. Each colour is asserted by the subtlety and brilliance of its hue, none suffocating the other.
In La galette, the influence of Constructivism is noticeable in the superimposition of geometric shapes, as if the object were deconstructed.
Les Nanas is different from the postucubist style adopted by Claude Venard. Here the softness of the curves lends itself to the female subject. The palette is restricted, and the two women in discussion stand out against two flat areas of colour: red and dark grey.
Claude Venard (1913-1999) was a self-taught French painter, who forged his artistic education by restoring paintings in the Louvre Museum. From 1935 onwards, he appeared in exhibitions devoted to modern art from all over the world. In 1936, he participated in an exhibition in favor of a new artistic movement derived from the avant-garde, "Les forces nouvelles", advocating a return to the strict and traditional principles of craftsmanship, which included the artists Pierre Tal Coat and André Marchand. But Claude Venard eventually broke away from this group and developed a personal style in the vein of postcubism. He accentuated the colors, applied in a straightforward manner with a palette knife, thus creating a "raw" material at the heart of a geometric aesthetic. The colors are sharp, bright and luminous, further enhanced by the contours and shadows of an absolute black. Each color imposes itself by the subtlety and the brightness of its hue, none suffocating the other.
In La galette, the influence of Constructivism is noticeable in the superimposition of geometric shapes, as if the object were deconstructed.
Les Nanas is different from the postucubist style adopted by Claude Venard. Here the softness of the curves lends itself to the female subject. The palette is restricted, and the two women in discussion stand out against two flat areas of color: red and dark gray.
The Galette
Oil on canvas, signed lower right, titled on the back, stamped Atelier Claude Venard on the back
65 x 81 cm
25 19/32 x 31 57/64 in.
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Toulon region
Claude Venard
Claude Venard (1913-1999) was a self-taught French painter, who forged his artistic education by restoring paintings in the Louvre Museum. From 1935 onwards, he appeared in exhibitions devoted to modern art from all over the world. In 1936, he participated in an exhibition in favour of a new artistic movement derived from the avant-garde, "Les forces nouvelles", advocating a return to the strict and traditional principles of craftsmanship, which included the artists Pierre Tal Coat and André Marchand. But Claude Venard eventually broke away from this group and developed a personal style in the vein of post-cubism. He accentuates the colours, applied in a straightforward manner with a palette knife, thus creating a "raw" material at the heart of a geometric aesthetic. The colours are sharp, bright and luminous, enhanced by the contours and shadows of absolute black. Each colour is asserted by the subtlety and brilliance of its hue, none suffocating the other.
In La galette, the influence of Constructivism is noticeable in the superimposition of geometric shapes, as if the object were deconstructed.
Les Nanas is different from the postucubist style adopted by Claude Venard. Here the softness of the curves lends itself to the female subject. The palette is restricted, and the two women in discussion stand out against two flat areas of colour: red and dark grey.
Claude Venard (1913-1999) was a self-taught French painter, who forged his artistic education by restoring paintings in the Louvre Museum. From 1935 onwards, he appeared in exhibitions devoted to modern art from all over the world. In 1936, he participated in an exhibition in favor of a new artistic movement derived from the avant-garde, "Les forces nouvelles", advocating a return to the strict and traditional principles of craftsmanship, which included the artists Pierre Tal Coat and André Marchand. But Claude Venard eventually broke away from this group and developed a personal style in the vein of postcubism. He accentuated the colors, applied in a straightforward manner with a palette knife, thus creating a "raw" material at the heart of a geometric aesthetic. The colors are sharp, bright and luminous, further enhanced by the contours and shadows of an absolute black. Each color imposes itself by the subtlety and the brightness of its hue, none suffocating the other.
In La galette, the influence of Constructivism is noticeable in the superimposition of geometric shapes, as if the object were deconstructed.
Les Nanas is different from the postucubist style adopted by Claude Venard. Here the softness of the curves lends itself to the female subject. The palette is restricted, and the two women in discussion stand out against two flat areas of color: red and dark gray.