Georges Chavignaud (1865–1944) — Paris, 1935 —

Oil on cardboard, signed lower right: G. Chavignaud.
Measuring 41 cm x 33 cm unframed, 56 cm x 48 cm overall.
Depicting traffic on the Pont Neuf in Paris, painted around 1935.

Georges Chavignaud, 1865–1944, French painter and watercolorist born in Lanvéoc near Brest. He spent his childhood in Brittany. His father was a writer, musician, and collector, thanks to whom he had the opportunity to observe Camille Corot at work. He studied at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris. In 1882, he lived in New York and then, two years later, in Toronto, where he served as artistic director at a publishing house until 1902. During a trip to Europe, he studied engraving in Paris and painting at the Royal Academies of Fine Arts in Brussels and Antwerp. He became an admirer of French Impressionism. He then settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he served as principal of the Victoria College of Art from 1912 to 1916. He traveled frequently to Europe beginning in 1914 and exhibited regularly in Paris (at the Salon des Indépendants), Brussels, and Canada. A landscape and portrait painter, his body of work consists mainly of watercolors, as well as a few oil paintings created toward the end of his life. His works are held at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Ontario, the Edmonton Art Gallery in Alberta, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, and the National Gallery of Canada. He died in Meadowvale in 1944. Artist listed and valued by Artprice, Artnet, Akoun, etc.

This cardboard panel is in very good condition.
The painting has never been cleaned; it is not dirty and is in very good original condition.
In its original 1935 frame made of whitewashed wood, in good condition.
Painting in very good original condition.

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