Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1940s.
Born in Germany in 1878, Waldraff studied in Düsseldorf before moving to Paris in 1902.
At the gallery La Maison Moderne he met the French designer and peintre-décorateur Clément Mère (1861-1940), and the two artists soon began working in partnership. Mère produced furniture and objects in wood, ivory and precious metals after Waldraff’s designs or decorated by him; several collaborative pieces are today in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Waldraff also designed silk brocades that were manufactured in Lyon for several Parisian fashion houses, as well as producing book illustrations, designs for stained glass panels, and decorations for a hôtel particulier on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Among his drawings are numerous decorative designs, as well as watercolours of, and inspired by, the dancer Isadora Duncan. Waldraff later settled in Menton in the South of France; although he is often said to have died there just before the Second World War, it has been claimed by a descendant that he in fact died much later, in Nice in 1961.
The above biography comes courtesy of the important London dealer's Stephen Ongpin sold archive. The painting we are presenting here comes from Waldraff's mediterranean period, and most likely was painted in the 1930s or 40s. The qualities of art deco design can still be felt in this landscape which has interesting stylised elements to it.
An oil on canvas, the painting is signed at the lower left and measures 46 x 55 cm. The overall framed size is 62 x 70 cm.
Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1940s.
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Cote D'azur, the French Riviera Near Menton, Provence Southern Landscape Antique Oil on Canvas
