Firmin Claude (1864-1944) "monnaie Street In Villeneuve Lès Avignon" Provence Grivolas French

FIRMIN Claude (1864-1944)

" Monnaie Street in Villeneuve lès Avignon "

Oil on canvas,
Signed lower right and dated 1910.
Countersigned, dated and titled "La petite placette à Villeneuve lès Avignon" on the back.

Luminous work of the Avignon painter Claude Firmin-Goy which represents a lively scene rue de la Monnaie in Villeneuve lès Avignon. The artist was able to perfectly transcribe the sunny atmosphere of a summer day.

Claude Firmin is described by critics as one of the best landscape painters in Avignon "with canvases of superior execution which ignore the violence of contrasts and wrap themselves in a seductive harmony of color"; But also, as a painter with exceptional talent, "mainly by his quality of vision: qualities which require a natural feeling of light, perfected by a league of experience".

Pupil of Pierre Grivolas, Léon Bonnat and Paul Saïn, he appeared at the Salon of French Artists from 1889 to 1922 and at the Salon of Independent Artists from 1906 to 1910 where he obtained numerous awards during his participation.
At the same time, he attended exhibitions in Avignon from 1882 to 1944, including that of the Groupe des Treize to which he belonged.
In 1922, he became a professor and then director from 1937 to 1941 of the School of Fine Arts of the City of Avignon.
He obtained the Legion of Honor in 1937.

Dimensions: 38 x 55 cm without frame and 55.5 x 72.5 cm with its modern gilded wooden frame.

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