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Country Homes Antiques Scotland est:1985
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