Let us bring colour to this gloomy winter with a vibrant selection of paintings by some of the most talented French artists of the 20th century: Jacques Pons, represented here by Paysage (pictured above); William Malherbe’s luminous Bouquet de fleurs; an atmospheric Mediterranean view by Jean Keuléyan-Lafon; and our Artist of the Month, Yvonne Canu, with her radiant depiction of the port in Saint-Tropez.
William Malherbe
Bouquet de fleurs
Oil on board: 50 cm x 40cm
Framed size: 70 cm x 60 cm
Signed and dated 1943
Jean Keuléyan-Lafon
Une vue méditerranéenne
Oil on panel: 32 cm x 40 cm
Framed size: 46 cm x 54 cm
Signed
Artist of the Month
Yvonne Canu (1921-2008)
Yvonne Canu was born in 1921 in the Moroccan town of Meknes. Her father was a Parisian architect who moved to Morocco as a Protectorate Architectural Service Officer. In 1920 he married, in Casablanca, Denise Aimée Pouard, and Yvonne was born a year later. Yvonne Canu was sent to a boarding school in France, and then attended École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, a prestigious college whose former pupils included Fernand Léger and Francis Picabia. The outbreak of World War II forced Canu to interrupt her studies and return to Morocco where she worked as a military nurse.
Pictured: Vue du port de St. Tropez, oil on canvas: 50 cm x 60 cm (framed size: 68 cm x 78 cm), signed.
