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Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower right / titled verso
Dated: c. 1980
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 18.00" x 22.00" (45.7cm x 55.9cm)
Framed Size: 24.50" x 28.50" (62.2cm x 72.4cm)
Provenance: Galerie Martin-Caille Matignon (Paris)
c. 1910
Oil on panel
£28,000.00
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Appareilleurs
by Maximilien Luce
1909
Oil on panel
£3,300.00
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The Artists Garden
by Henri Duhem
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
£23,000.00
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Provencher’s Mill – Moret-Sur-Loing
by Pierre Eugene Montezin
1955
Oil on original canvas
£16,500.00
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Salon des arts menagers – 1955
by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres
1947
Oil on canvas
£5,850.00
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La Plage a Soorts-Hossegor
by Maurice Brianchon
1881
Oil on canvas
£79,500.00
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Le peintre en plein air
by Charles Theophile Angrand
1940
Oil on canvas
£6,950.00
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Route a Mougins
by Jules Cavailles
c. 1880
Oil on canvas
£6,200.00
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Fishing on a stream by the coast – Normandy
by Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet
1924
Oil on paper laid on panel
£5,950.00
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Dimanche
by Paul Elie Gernez
1932
Oil on board
£6,500.00
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Evening in Paris
by Louis Hayet
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,550.00
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Pierrot aux bonnet noir
by Armand Francois Henrion
1918
Oil on original canvas
£51,000.00
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Portrait of a Girl
by Alfredo Guttero
Max-Michel Agostini studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he acquired the basic techniques of painting. He worked as a painter in Paris, and later in the Creuse and Midi regions of France.
He showed no interest in the artistic movements that sprang up at the beginning of the 20th century, being one of the many painters of the inter-war period who sought to recreate a peaceful and harmonious world. These painters, among whom the most prominent were Brianchon and Oudot, were known as the 'painters of happiness'. His optimistic approach took in a full range of themes; portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, bouquets of flowers and seascapes. His colourist's palette was inspired by impressionism, and never failed to communicate joie de vivre and his positive world view.
He showed his works from 1974 in regular solo exhibitions at the Galerie Martin-Caille Matignon in Paris.
Bibliography
Greenberg, Janet: Max-Agostini (1914-1997). Rétrospective, Gal. Martin-Caille Matignon, Paris, 1998 (text in French and English).
c. 1980
Oil on canvas
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Champ bleu
by Max Agostini - SOLD
c. 1980
Oil on canvas
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La Plage
by Max Agostini - SOLD
c. 1980
Oil on canvas
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Le Hameau
by Max Agostini - SOLD
c. 1980
Oil on canvas
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Sunbathing on the beach
by Max Agostini - SOLD
c. 1980
Oil on canvas
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Sur la plage
by Max Agostini - SOLD