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Mid 20th Century Oil - View to a Distant Town

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A charming oil study depicting a sweeping view over a town with lined terraced houses. Unsigned. Presented in a light wooden frame. On paper.

A commanding view over a vast city landscape, painted in an impressionistic light with soft sunset hues. Unsigned. Well-presented in a decorative gilt-effect frame. On board.

An atmospheric study of a coastal village at sunset, set in hilly terrain with sea views. The oil has been well-presented in a distressed wooden frame with a white inner window. Sign...

This impressionistic artwork depicts a European town with a bridge and large buildings clustered together. The artist employs a muted palette of earth tones - dark greens, greys, and...

A beautiful framed antique landscape oil painting. This is most likely English, dating from around the 1930’s. It is wonderfully executed and has ...

Work on canvas Dimensions with frame 65.5 x 88.5 x 3 cm This artistic work reveals a panoramic view of a port city, captured with an impressive mastery of the pictorial technique. Th...

In the manner of Jean-Francoise Milet, 1814-1875, who was a French artist, and one of the founders of the Barbizon School of painters. Milet influenced a great many painters through...

Jacques Maret 1900-1980 Jacques Maret was born on 27th September 1900 in Nantua, France. He was a French painter, illustrator, engraver and poet. This painting is signed , lower right. Maret studied under the French painter, sculptor and engraver Victor Prouvé and attended the Académie Julian, Paris, in the early 1920's when it was located in Montmartre. Maret was mobilized during both WW1 and WW2 - and was taken prisoner during WW2. Maret's illustrations were published in the surrealist and poetic magazine 'Feuillets Inutiles' between 1928 and 1977. The other contributors included the photographer Georges Pillement, the avant-garde poet and dramatist Pierre Albert-Birot, the journalist and poet Pierre Andreu, the cubist painter and teacher André Lhote and the Belgian sculptor Michel Seuphor. The French poet Max Jacob described Maret as 'a very great painter' in 1933. The poet André Salmon has been quoted as saying (of Maret) 'Il a beaucoup inventé, on il a beaucoup pillé avant la célébrité' (He invented a lot, and was frequently plundered before he became famous). The Bénézit Dictionary of Artists describes Maret as 'one of the greatest scholarly engravers of his time' Maret exhibited at various galleries in France including Galerie Zak - a Parisian art gallery (1928-60) that specialised in modern European and South American art; Galerie de Paris and the 'Salon des Tuileries' was an annual art exhibition of painting and sculpture, organized in opposition to the Academy's official Salon system, that ran from 1923 until the early 1950s. Maret had a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago...