Claude Vénard has a distinct style — it’s post-Cubist in its composition and he progressively accentuated the chromaticism of his palette up to reaching the crudest of colors, which he used in very thick forms and sometimes applied with a pallet knife.
Vénard was born in France in 1913 and, dedicating himself fully to making paintings at the age of 17, he studied at the École des Arts Appliqués for six years, having fled the Académie des Beaux-Arts after just 48 hours. In 1938 he signed the Rupture manifesto and participated in the first exhibition of the influential group Forces Nouvelles, alongside Francis Gruber and Pierre Tal-Coat at the Galerie Billiet-Vorms. A close affinity subsequently developed among these painters and together they were instrumental in forging the aesthetic of the immediate postwar period of the Ecole de Paris.
Vénard quickly became known for his rich impasto and varying texture. He received critical acclaim and was personally championed by Andre Salmon and Waldemar George, who described his painting as “Apocalyptic art! Beings and everyday things suddenly regain their meaning. Emotional values are once more felt.”
Vénard’s distinct and alluring compositions developed through a post-Cubist system that oscillates between abstraction and naturalism. He opens up perspectives projecting spatial vistas into every part of the canvas, in accordance with an emotional rather than a physical order. Familiar objects arise in the midst of a network of striations and hatching. Colors grow more intense in certain zones to stress the solidity of the composition; in other zones the light is more tenuous and diaphanous, as if to indicate space of different emotional intensity.
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(Biography provided by Gallery of the Masters)
Jester 20th century Abstract painting of a Joker, checkerboard, joke, purple
By Claude Venard
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Framed Size: 37.5" x 32.5" Circa 1964 Provenance: Private Collection, Germany Venard was intrigued by the Jesters and Entertainers of Paris's night life. He would frequent bars, com...
Oil, Canvas
Nu au Tub
By Claude Venard
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed "C. VENARD" at lower right Overall dimensions, including the frame, are 33 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches
Canvas, Oil
Colorful Still Life with Harlequin large oil painting
By Claude Venard
Located in Jerusalem, IL
Still Life with Harlequin (1959) by Claude Venard is a striking example of the artist’s bold and expressive postwar style. Known for his powerful brushwork and vivid use of color, Ve...
Canvas, Oil
Les Grenouilles
By Claude Venard
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This engaging work by Claude Venard exemplifies the artist's distinctive blend of Post-Cubist structure and expressive modernist vision. The composition presents a bustling interior ...
Canvas, Oil
$4,500
H 25 in W 37 in
Modernist English 1970's, Interior with an old record player Port decanter glass
By Colin Ruffell
Located in Woodbury, CT
Colin Ruffell is an English painter of interiors, cityscapes, and many other unique subjects. This bold and evocative 1970s painting by English artist Colin Ruffell captures a nosta...
Oil, Canvas
$556Sale Price|20% Off
H 23.63 in W 19.69 in D 0.6 in
"Wine-Tasting Holiday in Provence" Contemporary Expressionism Nature Leisure
By Natalya Mougenot
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Contemporary Oil Painting – Original Artwork on Stretched Canvas, Ready to Hang (60 × 50 × 1.5 cm / 23.6 × 19.7 × 0.6 in) – "Wine-Tasting Holiday in Provence" “Wine-Tasting Holiday ...
Canvas, Oil
$6,800
H 31 in W 37 in
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Contemporary David Atkins (1910 – 2012) Subway Train Departure 24 x 30 inches Oil on can...
Canvas, Oil
Partida de Tresillo
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ JIMÉNEZ ARANDA Spanish, 1837 - 1903 PARTIDA DE TRESILLO signed, located & dated “Jz. Aranda / Madrid. 1893.” (lower right) oil on canvas 31-1/2 x 39-1/3 inches (80 x 100 cm) unframed BIBLIOGRAPHY - This painting being mentioned and reproduced in “LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA”, Madrid, September 15th, 1895 - B. Pantorba, José Jiménez Aranda, 1973, p. 75, 203 - José Jiménez Aranda, 1837-1903: Centro Cultural El Monte, Sevilla, October, 2005, reproduced on p. 102 EXHIBITED Madrid, Esposición Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1895 PROVENANCE Private Collection, USA José Jiménez Aranda (7 February 1837 – 6 May 1903) was a Spanish painter and brother of the painters Luis Jiménez...
Oil, Canvas
$12,906
H 25.99 in W 36.23 in D 1.19 in
Group portrait painting after the hunt, oil on canvas
Located in London, GB
This charming painting depicts a group of gentlemen gathered around a kitchen table and admiring an English Setter. The snowy rooftops, just visible from the kitchen window, combined with the lit fire and holly decorating the picture frames in the room, implies that this is a Christmas scene. It also appears that the gentlemen have just returned from a fox hunt, and are now warming themselves, drinking port and smoking long pipes by the fire. Five men — three gathered behind the table and two standing in front — are identically dressed in long black riding boots...
Canvas, Oil
$533
H 16.54 in W 13 in D 0.79 in
"Rosed riverie" Contemporary Still life floral roses oil painting on canvas
By Mougenot Natalya
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
“Rosed reverie” is an original floral still life by French artist Natalya Mougenot, painted in oil on a cotton stretched canvas and ready to hang. The work measures 33 × 42 × 2 cm (1...
Canvas, Oil
$4,061Sale Price|22% Off
H 18.51 in W 28.75 in
Caravaggist Italian painter - 17th century figure painting - Saint Jerome
Located in Varmo, IT
Caravaggesque painter (17th century) - Saint Jerome. 47 x 73 cm. Oil on canvas, unframed (not signed). The painting depicts Saint Jerome recumbent, wrapped in a red cloak, in a mo...
Canvas, Oil
$4,641
H 32.68 in W 31.11 in
Workshop of Jacopo Bassano - Venetian 16th century The Entombment of Christ
By Jacopo Bassano
Located in Varmo, IT
Workshop of Jacopo Bassano (Bassano del Grappa c. 1510 - 1592) - The Entombment of Christ. 65.5 x 50.5 cm (unframed) - 83 x 70 cm (framed). Oil on canvas, in a carved and gilded...
Canvas, Oil
$29,000
H 23 in W 26.5 in
"Woman Reading in an Interior" Vaclav Vytlacil, Loose Brushwork Portrait
By Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in New York, NY
Vaclav Vytlacil Woman Reading in an Interior, circa 1915 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches As a child, Vytlacil had taken art classes at the Art Institute of Chicago....
Canvas, Oil
$2,650
H 40 in W 28 in D 3 in
Mid Century Modern Jazz Ensemble -- The Band Box Quartet, Signed
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Jazz Quartet Figurative -- "The Band Box" Signed A vivid, mid-century modernist interpretation of a jazz ensemble by Louis M. Centofanti (American, 1921-2018). "B...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$1,150
H 17.5 in W 19.5 in D 1 in
Whistlers Mother by Anonymous Artist Original Oil on Canvas 1924 after Whistler
Located in Soquel, CA
Whistlers Mother by Anonymous Artist Original Oil on Canvas 1924 Nicely executed painting after James McNeil Whistler of his mother by an anonymous artist (American, 19th-20th C.) I...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$750
H 16.93 in W 23.63 in D 1.19 in
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - At Home
By Dondi Schwartz
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Dondi Schwartz is an Israeli artist born in Canada in 1961 who lives and works in the Kibbutz Beeri, Negev, Israel. Schwartz studied art at the Avni School of Arts in...
Canvas, Oil
Cubist French Still life of a table top
By Claude Venard
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Venard was born in France in 1913, dedicating himself fully to painting at the age of seventeen he studied at the École des Arts Appliqués for six years, having fled the Acadé...
Oil
Cubist French sailboats
By Claude Venard
Located in Woodbury, CT
Claude Venard was born in France in 1913, dedicating himself fully to painting at the age of seventeen he studied at the École des Arts Appliqués for six years, having fled the Acadé...
Oil
Arlequin
By Claude Venard
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
At the age of 17 Venard began to take evening classes in painting at the Ecole des Arts Appliqués, however, after six years of conscientious study, he was forced, in order to support...
Canvas, Oil
Arlequin Vert
By Claude Venard
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Claude Venard was born in 1913 into a business family from Burgogne. At the age of 17 he began to take evening classes in painting at the Ecole des Arts Appliques. However, after six...
Canvas, Oil
Arlequin Rouge
By Claude Venard
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Claude Venard was born in 1913 into a business family from Burgogne. At the age of 17 he began to take evening classes in painting at the Ecole des Arts Appliques. However, after six...
Canvas, Oil