Jeannette And André 1954 By Jean Claude Imbert 1919-1993

Oil on wood measuring 50cm x62cm plus wooden frame 60cm x73cm monogrammed lower right in the paste JCI dated 54 titled on the back "Jeannette and André Vieux Port 1954 countersigned very good condition Jean Claude IMBERT is one of these great painters that Provence has been able to know Born in Paris in 1919, it is in the Gard that he established himself Exhibitor from 1947 at BERNHEIM, Bardes, Chardin then Mourlot and Jouvène in Marseille, International Exhibitions in Los Angeles, Munich, Liège, Italy He was appointed professor of painting at the Beaux-Arts of Avignon in 1957, then in 1962 appointed to the Beaux-Arts of Aix en Provence He decorated numerous Chapels including; Dominicans of Grenoble, the baptistery of the church Saint Jean de Malte in Aix en Provence, commission of a fresco by the Nice Hospital, etc... A very good designer, excellent watercolorist, executing large panels in oil by adding all sorts of materials, sand, earth, cement, the research with this artist was constantly inexhaustible. The breath of this immense creator will cease in 1993. The friends and heirs of Jean Claude Imbert have published a book which will be given with the painting in 1995. Many retrospective exhibitions have been organized since his death. International exhibitions in Los Angeles, Munich, Liège, Italy.