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1913 - 1999, French See the art by this Artist » Claude Venard was born into a business family from Burgognein, in 1913 in Paris. At the age of 17 he decided to become a painter and signed up at the École des Beaux-Arts, but finding that it did not suit him, he fled after only forty eight hours. Instead, he began to take evening classes in painting at the Ecole des Arts Appliqués. However, after years of conscientious study, financial difficulties forced him to work as a restorer at the Louvre Museum, where he worked, restoring Old Masters for five years. In the event, this turned out to be beneficial to him as it enabled the young artist to fill the gaps in his artistic education. From 1935 onwards Venard’s name began to figure in contemporary art exhibitions, both in France and abroad. Before he ever exhibited at the Salon de Mai in Paris, he had contributed to shows organized by the group of abstract artists, ‘Forces Nouvelles,’ along with Roger Humblot, Francis Gruber, André Marchand and Pierre Tal-Coat. However, the harsh trends followed by this group did not suit Venard, so along with a number of others he left the group to concentrate on his own work. After serving in World War II, Claude Venard’s life was transformed. As his popularity developed, with recognition came the chance to put his painting before anything else. Most of his subjects were still lives and landscape scenes. Influenced initially by the Primatives, he then drew a lot from the work of Courbet, before moving onto the Cubists. As his style developed, his work became more abstracted, and he began using increasingly linear patterning and flat patches of colour. After the 1950s he remained faithful to a post-Cubist compositional style, and progressively accentuated his pallet towards reaching the crudest of colours. He used these bold colours in very thick forms, sometimes applying them with a pallet knife. Venard’s career was a happy one, punctuated by one man shows in Paris, London, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dusseldorf, Munich, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Canada, Belgium and Holland. He loved life in all its aspects and one is inclined to feel that he may have been in search of a genre of painting that would respond to all appetites. Claude Venard died in France in 1999. Le Phare Oil on canvas 65.4 x 81.3 cm £ 8,000.00 GBP Paysage Gouache on paper 48.0 x 62.0 cm £ 4,000.00 GBP Composition Mixed media on canvas 116.0 x 89.0 cm £ 14,000.00 GBP Le port de Locquemeau (1947) Oil on canvas 65.0 x 81.0 cm £ 8,000.00 GBP Nature Morte au Livre Oil on canvas 33.0 x 46.0 cm £ 6,000.00 GBP Les Voiliers Oil on canvas 74.0 x 74.0 cm £ 10,000.00 GBP Composition Oil on canvas 97.0 x 129.5 cm £ 21,000.00 GBP Paysage oil on canvas 60.0 x 73.0 cm £ 10,000.00 GBP Composition à la Fenêtre oil on canvas 100.0 x 100.0 cm £ 15,000.00 GBP Le Pont Suspendu oil on canvas 81.5 x 100.0 cm £ 18,000.00 GBP Le Main (1991) oil on canvas 114.5 x 146.0 cm £ 30,000.00 GBP La Sirene Oil on canvas 115.0 x 146.0 cm £ 30,000.00 GBP Les Mimosas oil on canvas 81.0 x 65.0 cm £ 8,000.00 GBP Nature Morte Oil on canvas 75.0 x 75.0 cm £ Neg. Paris roof tops and the Sacre Coeur Oil on canvas 74.0 x 92.0 cm £ 11,000.00 GBP Port Breton en Finistère Oil on canvas 64.8 x 81.0 cm £ 8,000.00 GBP The Steam Engine Oil on canvas 116.0 x 89.0 cm £ 19,000.00 GBP La Gare Oil on canvas 100.0 x 100.0 cm £ 18,000.00 GBP Trees with Sacre Coeur in the Distance Oil on canvas 89.0 x 116.0 cm £ 19,000.00 GBP Back to the top of the page »