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Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on original unlined canvas
Signed: Signed lower right
Dated: c. 1920
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 35.00" x 46.00" (88.9cm x 116.8cm)
Framed Size: 43.00" x 54.00" (109.2cm x 137.2cm)
Provenance: Private UK collection
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
French modernist painter Alphonse Léon Quizet was born in Paris on March 13, 1885 to café owners Leontine and Joseph Quizet. He showed an early interest in art, often skipping school to visit the Louvre Museum. After completing his education, he took painting classes at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and then trained as a draftsman at an architecture firm. He married seamstress Jeanne Marie Frémy in 1910 and the couple had three daughters. He served in the military from 1914 to 1919.
As a member of the Montmartre school, Quizet relished in the camaraderie of his fellow bohemian artists. He was highly influenced by Vincent van Gogh, evident in his use of pure color and expressive brushwork. His artistic influence can be noted in the works of his close friend Maurice Utrillo, a notable cityscape artist also of the Montmartre school. Quizet and Utrillo often painted the same motif and sold their paintings together. Quizet also associated with Montmartre painter Marcel Leprin and renowned Fauve painter Louis Valtat.
A watercolorist and oil painter, Quizet’s style reflected a tendency toward sentimentality and simplified form, which can be noted even in the simple titles of his works: Rue à Montmarte (1920), Au canal (1930), Vue sur le canal (1930), Le bords de Marne (1930), and La retour des champs (1930). One work in particular, Le solitude dans le forêt africaine (1940) demonstrates Quizet's later interest in the exotic style of Henri Rousseau. He regularly exhibited his work in the Salons of Paris, including the Société des Beaux-Arts, the Salons des Indépendants, and the Salon d’Automne.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Paris (MNAM-CCI)