Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1910s.
Avy was born in Marseille to a businessman father, but decided to break with family tradition and study painting in Paris with Léon Bonnat and Albert Maignan.
From 1900 until 1933 he regularly exhibited at the "Salon des artistes français" and, from 1934 to 1939, the year of his death, at the "Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts".
Avy loved Rome and spent a considerable amount of time there. Interestingly, Avy's work in the Paris Petit Palais Museum is a gouache/watercolour on paper, equally depicting Rome and painted just five years later. A screenshot is attached for reference.
A major work by Avy also is in the collection of the Musée des Années Trente in Boulogne Billancourt. Interestingly, Avy's work in the Petit Palais is a gouache/watercolour on paper, also, equally depicting Rome and painted just five years later. A screenshot from the Paris Musées website is attached for reference.
Our watercolour and gouache on paper is signed and dated at the lower right. Measuring 36 x 27.5 cm, the overall size in its simple original frame is 39 x 30.5 cm.
Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1910s.
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View Over Rome, 1916 Art Nouveau Exhibited Gouache and Watercolour on Paper by French Joseph Marius Avy
