Painting Hungary Hungary Seaside Seaside French Riviera Painting Signed Agathe Vaïto 1928-1973

Oil on paper 45 cm x 21 cm preserved under glass and sold with its golden care 62 cm x 40 cm. The work is signed and dated lower left Agathe Vaïto 1962 and represents a seaside probably near Bandol where the artist lived from 1956 until his death in 1973. Sold with invoice-certificate. Perfect original condition. Agathe Vaïto (1928-1973) Student at the school of fine arts in Hungary, Agathe Vaïto went to Paris in 1949. In 1951, she presented at the Salon des Surindépendants geometric compositions of surrealist inspiration which attracted the attention of critics. She participated in the Salons of May, of the New Realities, of October. Her marriage to art dealer Pierre Loeb, founder of the Pierre Gallery, freed her from financial problems, allowing her to devote herself to painting. She participated in three major group exhibitions, including "Six Parisian Painters" in Stockholm in 1955, with Vieira da Silva and Georges Mathieu. In 1956, she broke away from abstraction and painted figurative works. The couple owned a villa near Bandol, where Mediterranean landscapes became the main subject of her paintings. After her husband's death in 1964, she took refuge in work; it was the most productive period of her career. Following the death of her second husband, film director Albert Knobler, a severe depression led her to suicide.