Landscape By Alfred Rozelaar Green 1917-2013

Very nice pastel on paper measuring 46cm x 54cm plus the original frame made by the house "L'éclat du verre" in Versailles 75cm x 84cm the pastel is signed A. ROZELAAR GREEN and dated 96 for 1996 Alfred Rozelaar-Green, RWA (14 July 1917 - 7 July 2013) was a British artist and founder of the Anglo-French Art Centre in St. John's Wood Rozelaar-Green spent two years studying physics, mathematics and engineering at Cambridge University before leaving for London and the Central School of Art in 1937. The following year he went to Paris to study Fine Arts at the Académie Julian and under the tutelage of the painter Marcel Gromaire. In Paris he met his first wife Nita Bassetti, an artist's model who had posed for Matisse, and together they had three sons. Upon his return to London after World War II, he established the Anglo-French Art Centre in St. John's Wood, London, where he invited artists from France and beyond to exhibit and teach. These included Fernand Léger, Robert Couturier, Jean Lurçat, Germaine Richier, Oscar Dominguez, Marc Saint-Saëns, Oskar Kokoschka, and Antoni Clavé. The Art Centre also received support from leading British artists of the time, such as Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Julian Trevelyan, Graham Sutherland, and Victor Pasmore, who frequently visited and lectured. Free shipping within the European Union