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Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower left & titled verso
Dated: c. 1980
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 20.00" x 26.00" (50.8cm x 66.0cm)
Framed Size: 27.00" x 33.00" (68.6cm x 83.8cm)
Provenance: This work is included in the extensive catalogue of the painters work prepared by Janet Greenberg and entitled "Max Agostini - The Mystery of Creation”
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
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
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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The Great War – Soldier & horse on a road
by Andre Devambez
1937
Oil on original canvas
£9,950.00
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The Old Farmyard – Sørup
by Peder Mork Monsted
1903
Oil on canvas
£22,500.00
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Pont D’Austerlitz
by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tarkhoff
1909
Oil on panel
£3,750.00
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Figures in a village
by Henri Duhem
1910
Oil on canvas
£21,500.00
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La Moisson a Thomery
by Pierre Eugene Montezin
c. 1910
Oil on board
£6,450.00
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Port d’Honfleur
by Henri Lienard De Saint Delis
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