Robert Vernet-Bonfort : Bouquet de fleurs (Bouquet of Flowers), 1967 (Gouache)

By VERNET-BONFORT Robert (1934–2017)

Robert Vernet-Bonfort (1934–2017)
Bouquet de fleurs (Bouquet of Flowers), 1967
Gouache and watercolour, with white heightening
Dedicated, signed and dated by hand, lower edge: “Pour Mr et Mme Yves Guérin, avec toute ma sympathie”, signed “Vernet-Bonfort”, dated “67”

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: the full sheet

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance).

Description: A sumptuous bouquet — sunflowers, daisies, a red rose, blue delphinium spikes and mixed blossoms — in a rounded white vase on a dark table, set against a glowing golden-ochre ground, built up in watercolour and gouache with white heightening. Robert Vernet-Bonfort was a French painter and lithographer, born in Marseille and trained at its École des Beaux-Arts; profoundly deaf, he made painting his language, and is known above all for still lifes with “explosions of colour,” prized for their finesse of execution and composition. Regarded as an internationally recognised Provençal master, he won the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation Grand Prize (Montréal, 1965). An early (1967) and especially accomplished example of his signature floral subject. Signed, dated and dedicated by hand.

Price : 300,00 € ( 341.00 USD )