François Bret : Vendanges à la Pardiguiere, 1963 (watercolour)

By BRET Francois (1919-2004)

François Bret (1918–2004)
Vendanges à la Pardiguiere, 1963
Original watercolour on paper
Signed and inscribed by hand: “Pour Y.G. en toute amitié”

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.)

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance; dedications place the collector in the Riviera and Dinard casino milieu).

Description: A grape-harvest scene executed by hand in the collector’s guest book and warmly dedicated. François Bret was a French painter and a leading figure of post-war Côte d’Azur cultural life — professor at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Nice (1950), director of the Marseille École des Beaux-Arts (1961), and a producer for Télé Monte-Carlo who interviewed Picasso, Chagall and Cocteau. His work moves from an early linear, Marquet-like manner to a colour-led, near-Orphist construction in the early 1960s, the period of this sheet.

Price : 150,00 € ( 170.00 USD )