Landscape Of Provence By Franz Priking 1927-1979

Large and beautiful oil on paper mounted on canvas measuring 54cm x81cm plus carved wooden frame with flaking gilding in places 80cm x107 representing a landscape of Provence under the fire of the sun as this artist had painted It is signed lower left Priking Franz Priking was born in 1929 in Mühlheim, Germany. became a painter at 18. he was influenced by the great German and Belgian painters and by the French Fauves, Priking thus obeyed the resolutions of the expressionists "The work of art, Kandinsky had said, is the external expression of an internal necessity". From 1948 to 1950 he worked at the Berlin Academy then moved to Paris but only stayed there briefly, due to lack of money. He immediately went to the South of France to settle in Villeneuve les Avignon. It was following an exhibition in Arles that he met Picasso who encouraged him. He died in 1979 in Oppède in Provence, he was not 50 years old free shipping for the European Union 350 euros for International