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Large oil on board of three nudes in a landscape by French artisit René Mendès France (1888-1985).  This post impressionist oil painting is ideal for a bathroom.  Using a variety of brushstrokes, some barely covering the canvas board and some heavy use of impasto especially on the poplar tree to give definition.  It's a  good triangular composition with a backdrop of a lake and the outlines of perhaps a village on higher ground.  The forestry  background in dark earthy tones and the ground covering lush green only serve to highlight the naked body forms which are scultured from paint mixed on the canvas.  

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Medium: Oil on canvas board

Overall size: 30.5ins x 24.5ins or 77cms x 60cms (approx including frame)

Date: 1920's

Condition report: This painting is in good condition for the age.  It's on a thick canvas board within a frame.  You should expect imperfections throughout the painting commensurate with age such as minor areas of missing paint.  The frame again has imperfections throughout particulalry at the corners where there has been minimal renovation.

Signed: René MENDES-FRANCE (1888-1985), French painter and brother of Pierre MENDES FRANCE, President of the French Government in 1954.

He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from the 1920s onwards, then founded the Salon des SURINDEPENDANTS, of which he was president for many years. In painting, he was one of the promoters of “Effusionism” (Source Bénézit).  The years leading up to the First World War were the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art. This was the crucible of modernism, when in quick succession, the better known art movements were Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, and Effusionism was part of this.  There were extraordinary new developments in avant garde art all over Europe but above all in Paris.  Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Kirchner, Malevich, Boccioni, Klimt and Schiele all came to prominence during these years. It was a unique generation of modernist talent, cut short by the outbreak of war.

This painting is sent track and trace with Colissimo.

Three nudes in a landscape by René Mendès France

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