Villeneuve Les Avignon By Antoine Vincent, Large Watercolor Circa 1930

Strikingly luminous, this watercolor depicts the entrance to Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, as the artist titled it on the back around 1930.
A heavily laden peasant woman passes through the majestic architecture of the gate with its half-columns and enters the town's suburbs with their modest dwellings.
It is in very good condition in its original gilded and lacquered carved wooden frame.
Frame dimensions: Height 63 cm - Width 78 cm.
Watercolor dimensions: Height 48 cm - Width 63.5 cm.
Signed lower left and titled on the back.

André Alauzen's dictionary of painters and sculptors of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur informs us that: "Antoine Vincent was born in 1862 in Carpentras (Vaucluse) into a family of cabinetmakers, that he was himself a cabinetmaker, and that he died in the same town in 1942. He painted for his own pleasure and never sold his works." A former student of the Carpentras municipal drawing school, where he studied under Evariste de Valernes, for whom he had profound respect. "Mr. Vincent, the most hardworking, if not the oldest, and certainly the most accomplished student of the school to date, as his string of silver-gilt medals of honor readily demonstrates..." said the painter Jules Laurens about him. A landscape painter, portraitist, and still-life painter, he participated in the 1900 exhibition of the Vaucluse Society of Friends of the Arts in Avignon, of which he was a member. He was awarded the Academic Palms.