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Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on board
Signed: Signed lower left
Dated: c. 1930
Size: 14.00" x 17.00" (35.6cm x 43.2cm)
1932
Oil on board
£6,500.00
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Evening in Paris
by Louis Hayet
1949
Oil on canvas
£13,500.00
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New York Skyline – December 1949
by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres
1903
Oil on canvas
£22,500.00
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Pont D’Austerlitz
by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tarkhoff
1944
Oil on canvas
£3,800.00
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Notre Dame et la Seine a Paris
by Jean Albert Pougny
1903
Oil on board laid on canvas
£28,000.00
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Le Manege
by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tarkhoff
c. 1904
Oil on canvas
£8,950.00
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Demonstrators – Boulevard Poissonniere 1904
by Andre Devambez
1950
oil on original canvas
£4,350.00
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Quai des bouquinistes
by Jules Rene Herve
c. 1910
Oil on board
£34,000.00
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La Tour Saint-Jacques, Paris
by Konstantin Korovin
c. 1860
Oil on canvas
£5,750.00
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Figures in a street – Normandy
by Stanislas Victor Edouard Lepine
1903
Oil on canvas
£46,000.00
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Pont Neuf – Evening
by Achille-Emile Othon Friesz
c. 1950
Oil on canvas
£4,250.00
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L’Arbre de Noel
by Jules Rene Herve
1920
Oil on canvas
£49,500.00
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Boulevard De Clichy
by Albert Andre
Ismael Gonzalez de la Serna studied at the academy of art in Madrid. As a young man, he was a friend of Federico García Lorca. In 1921, he settled in Montparnasse in Paris, where he associated with Gris, Gargallo, Gonzalez, Soutine, Kisling, Pascin and, particularly, Picasso.
La Serna was first influenced by the French Impressionists, then after coming to Paris, by Picasso and Braque, exploring Cubism. He subsequently developed an eclectic style, with compositions including figures such as The Dressmaker, Spanish Dancers and still-lifes. According to Terriade, 'His art is the natural link between reality and the abstract'. In 1917, he illustrated Lorca's first book Impressions and Landscapes (Impresiones y paisajes) and in 1928 the Sonnets of Góngora for the Cahiers d'Art.
La Serna took part in group exhibitions, including those at the arts centre in Granada in 1933; the Jeu de Paume in Paris in 1936; the Spanish pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937; the Galerie Berri in Paris in 1938, 1947 and 1948; Contemporary French Art at the museum of fine arts in Mexico in 1956; the Tate Gallery in London in 1963 and the St-Étienne Museum in 1964. Before coming to Paris, he had held his first exhibition in Madrid in 1919. His first Paris exhibition, organised by Paul Guillaume, took place in 1927. He later had solo shows in Brussels in 1928; at the Galerie Zak in Paris in 1928 and 1930, and again in Paris in 1974; at the national gallery in Berlin in 1930; at the Galería del Turismo in Madrid in 1932; at the Centro Cultural Conde Duque in 1990 and in 1963 in New York.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Berlin (Nationalgal.)
Paris (MAMVP)
Paris (Mus. d'Orsay)