Antoine Blanchard, French 1910-1988 ‘Champs Elysees towards Arc de Triomphe, Paris’

SOLD. 13 x 18 in. oil on canvas, signed. In a fine Impressionist style carved frame. Comes with COA.

In recent decades Antoine Blanchard has become on of the most sought after artists of the ‘Paris School of Painters’ reflected by steadily increasing prices on the international art markets. He was was a prolific and successful Neo-Impressionist painter who specialized in nostalgic scenes of Fin de Siècle Paris. Inspired by the subjects as well as the success of earlier painters of Parisian life like E. Galien Laloue (1854-1941), Eduard Cortes (1882-1969), Jean Béraud (1849-1935) and Luigi Loir (1845-1916) Blanchard studied the ‘Belle Époque’ as it manifested itself in Paris and painted his impressions with a bold yet lyrical brush.  He was active until his death in 1988. Literature: ‘Antoine Blanchard, his Life and Work’ by A. P. Larde