EARLY-MID 20TH C EUROPEAN SIGNED VINT W/C CITYSCAPE W/STREET/BUILDINGS, FRAMED

Description

EARLY-MID 20TH CENTURY
EUROPEAN
GRAPHITE
SIGNED VINTAGE WATERCOLOR OF CITYSCAPE,
W/STREET/ANTIQUE BUILDINGS, DOUBLE
MATTED IN CONTEMPORARY
GOLD GILT FRAME
(Signed illegibly
'S. Chaput'
or
'S. Chulet'
in pencil)
Circa 1930-1955
Early to mid-20th century
European
fine art & linear, gestural
Modernist
landscape painting
DIMENSIONS:
Frame:
22
3⁄4" Height x
19" Width
Image:
15" Height x
26
1⁄2" Width
DESCRIPTION:
For sale is this wonderful, conceptually linear driven, Post-Impressionist/early Modernist signed watercolor landscape painting of a European cityscape, featuring a city street, lined with antique, gambrel, mansard roofed large apartment buildings. The original work of art is a watercolor painting which heavily relies on black line and its energetic, gestural, highly kinetic application of paint to describe the scene before the artist, most likely done on scene and 'en plein aire.' The linear watercolor or 'painted drawing' is then infused with episodes of olive green, burnt sienna brown and a light peach, flesh colored wash. The work is clearly, although unfortunately somewhat illegibly signed in graphite
'S. Chaput'
or
'S. Chulet'
in the lower right corner of the pictorial field. The work has an unbroken back brown dust cover and a metallic gold New Jersey picture framer's label affixed to it. The work is under glass and hasn't been removed. Great visual energy, lyrical movement and artistic clairvoyance. Most likely
Be
lgi
an
or
Fr
en
ch.
Undisturbed and untouched. Fresh to the marketplace and recently discovered on the New Hampshire seacoast.
Very beautiful.
CONDITION:
Very Good to Excellent overall vintage condition.