Odilon Redon | Still Life

Odilon Redon's still life paintings are known for their vibrant colors, dreamlike atmosphere, and Symbolist style.

Unlike traditional still lifes that seek realism, Redon's works are visual meditations that place the visible in the service of the invisible, evoking emotion and imagination.

Damian Tirado, 1960 | Belle Époque

Damian Tirado believes that color is a mode of expression in its own right and not simply a descriptive tool.

His paintings are often vivid and bright.

He is inspired by Latin art and classic European painters like Matisse and Renoir.

His work ranges from figurative urban landscapes to portraits.

Léon-Jean-Basile Perrault | Pittore accademico di genere

Léon-Jean-Basile Perrault (1832-1908) è stato un pittore Francese.

Nacque da una famiglia modesta: il padre, Henri, era sarto.

Entrò a 10 anni nella scuola di disegno di Poitiers, allora diretta dai fratelli Hivonnait, dove rimase fino a 14 anni quando, dovendo contribuire al mantenimento della famiglia, trovò un lavoro presso un decoratore, con il quale collaborò ai restauri degli affreschi della locale chiesa di Sainte Radegonde.

Annick Bouvattier, 1964 | Unspoken words

Annick Bouvattier primarily paints painting of modern women, using intricate plays of light and shadow.

These women embrace their femininity without false modesty, remaining indifferent to outside gazes.

Annick Bouvattier was born in Nevers. Her father, a pediatrician and art enthusiast, passed on to her a love for art and painting from a very young age.

Georges Maroniez | Fishing port at dusk

Georges Maroniez was born in Douai in 1865 and died in Paris in 1933, French painter.

Son of an industrialist, manufacturer of sugar in Montigny-en-Ostrevent, Georges Maroniez very early on showed a taste and gifts for drawing and painting.

His father encouraged him but also asked him to study law, the profession of artist being little considered at the time.

At the end of his studies, he began a career as a magistrate, successively in Boulogne-sur-Mer (1891), Avesnes-sur-Helpe (1894) and Cambrai (1897).

Anne Bachelier, 1949 | Surrealist painter

Metamorphosis, transition, and evolution provide the common threads of the art of Anne Bachelier.

The artist captivates her audience with compelling, highly imaginative images that are distinct, unique, inventive and immediately recognizable.

Her metaphysical, dream-like fantasies evoke feelings simultaneously powerful, peaceful, and protective.

This unique "other" world, untouched by time or place, reminds the viewer of the eternal dance of transformation and regeneration.

Claude Monet | Meules, 1890

The year 1890 was a watershed moment in Claude Monet’s life-he turned fifty, bought property for the first time and negotiated the purchase of Édouard Manet’s Olympia and its ensuing placement in the French national collection.

Any of these could have been the most notable occurrence of that period, but 1890 was also the year that Monet painted the most definitive artistic series of the nineteenth century - his Meules.

Claude Monet | Meules, 1890 | Sotheby's

Yarek Godfrey | Figurative painter

Yarek Godfrey (real name Jaroslaw Pawel Nowicki, 1957-2014) was a Polish artist of French, British and Austrian origins.

Godfrey received numerous awards for his work: The Gold Medal of the XXXVIII Salon of Young Artists, Grand Palais, Paris, 1987; Grand Prix of the XXVI International Salon of Art Côte d'Azur, Cannes, 1990.

He presented his works at numerous group and solo exhibitions, primarily in the United States and France, but also in Belgium, Monaco and Italy.