Sauveur Cardona (born In 1936) - The Night Of The Green Sands

Sauveur CARDONA (born in 1936)The nights of the green sands Oil on canvas Painting dimensions: 40 x 60 cm Signed lower right. Painting in perfect condition. Beautiful frame Offered Dimensions with frame: 41 x 71 cm Original work delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity. Fast, careful and insured shipping. Buy with confidence! Jean-Claude Janet, son of Jules Isaac and Laure Ettinghausen, painter (student of Carrière) attended, after his secondary studies, the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the André Lhote academy. He was transferred in October 1943 to Drancy then deported with his sister Juliette de Drancy to Auschwitz by Convoy No. 61, dated October 28, 19432. Transferred to Dora he escaped during his transfer. He stayed in Oppède with the sculptor Étienne Martin. He was an officer of the Legion of Honour in military capacity and awarded the Croix de Guerre from 1939 to 1945 with palm. Jean-Claude Janet presented private exhibitions from 1951 in Belgium, Italy and Japan. His works are present in numerous collections in France but also in Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Great Britain, Spain, the United States, Italy, Japan and Sweden. His wife, the sculptor Janine Janet, whom he married in 1949, created ephemeral decorations for the windows of the major fashion houses from the 1940s onwards, notably Balenciaga, Dior, Hubert de Givenchy, Pierre Balmain, Ricci and Hermès and participated in the design of the sets and costumes for The Testament of Orpheus by Jean Cocteau, filmed in 1959. In 1996 fifty paintings by Jean-Claude Janet were exhibited in Paris with sculptures by Janine Janet, Étienne Martin and François Stahly.