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SOLD JEAN ARNAVIELLE  (1881-1961)

JEAN ARNAVIELLE A large signed oil on canvas by the French decorative painter Jean ARNAVIELLE, this stunning work depicts ladies by a fountain and on bathing. Fully signed lower left, the work is in lovely condition.

Title:                  “Bathers”

Signature:          Signed lower left

Provenance:       Private Paris collection

Medium:            Oil on original canvas

Size:                  18″ x 24″ unframed,  21″ x 27″ framed.

Condition:           Very good!

ABOUT THE ARTIST:  ARNAVIELLE, Jean

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1881, in Paris; died 1961.

Painter. Landscapes, genre scenes. Decorative panels.

Jean Arnavielle’s landscapes of the Île-de-France and Normandy are composed in the manner of Marquet. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in Paris from 1907 onward.

Auction Records

Versailles, 25 Oct 1964: Banks of the Seine at Rouen, FRF 1,700

Lindau, 7 Oct 1981: Spring Landscape (oil on card, 15 × 18 ins/38 × 46 cm) DEM 1,600

Madrid, 21 Dec 1987: View of the Park at the Château de Versailles (oil on canvas, 19¾ × 25½ ins/50 × 65 cm) ESP 300,000

Honfleur, 26 March 1989: Washerwomen (watercolour, 12½ × 15¾ ins/32 × 40 cm) FRF 3,500