émile Valentin Cardinal (1883-1958) -

Émile Valentin CARDINAL (1883-1958) - "Three kittens with a basket of roses", oil on panel, dated 1912

This work, particularly representative of the artist's specialty, features an animal composition of great realism and full of gentleness: three mischievous kittens playing around a wicker basket lined with old roses.
The work on textures, the silky fur of the kittens and the draping of light testify to the perfect technical mastery of the early 20th-century French school for animal genre scenes.

The artist here integrates his signature and dedication in a highly original way in the form of a trompe-l'oeil sweet bill placed in the foreground:

Artist: Émile Valentin CARDINAL (1883-1958). Painter of nudes, flowers and animals, recognized mainly for his remarkable representations of cats.
He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1920 to 1932 (mentioned in the Bénézit dictionary).

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