Skippings Fine Arts has dated this French Surrealist Gouache Painting to the 1930s.
It is a work by French artist Lucien Mathelin, who was born into a family of artists and received artistic training from childhood. He produced his first oil on canvas at the age of 15 in 1920. In 1924, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, of which he became a member. He traveled to Morocco (1925-1926) and Greece (1933-1934) in search of inspiration and in 1937, worked for Raoul Dufy on the creation of the gigantic painting La Fée Électricité .
Mathelin's daughter Marie, described his work as "trompe-l'oeil surrealism". Humour is always present in his painting with thoughtful and refined compositions, highlighted by a chromatic range in fresh and harmonious colours.
Mathelin had one man shows in France, Germany, the UK, Japan and Italy and exhibited at the Salon Comparaison, The Salon of Young Painting, the Salon des Tuileries, the Paris Biennale, the National Society of Fine Arts and the "Artist Witnesses of their Time" exhibition series at the Musée Galliera.
Works by the artist are notably in the National Museum of Modern Art/Centre Georges Pompidou, and in the Museum of Montmartre.
Our painting is signed, dated and situated "Paris" on the verso of the board of the painting. A backing board has been added so the inscription is not visible unless it is removed. The artwork was acquired from the Mathelin estate.
Measuring 60 x 51 cm, the overall size in a luxurious frame is 80 x 65 cm.
Skippings Fine Arts has dated this French Surrealist Gouache Painting to the 1930s.
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The World, 1939, Surrealist Still Life with Globe French Gouache on Board Painting
