"Le Damier"

Hand SignedLower left 

Condition Excellent - Professionally cleaned by Dir. of Conservation, UCLA 

Other FramePainted wood frame--original at time of purchase-- 

Story / Additional InfoEdgardo Acosta Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA. Paris school 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage has buyers waiting 

LID38022

Claude Venard - France

Art Brokerage: Claude Venard French Painter: He painted mainly landscapes and still life. He was born in Paris. Entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at the age of 17 but left after two days; took lessons at the Ecole des Arts Appliqu-23s in the evenings, then painted on his own. Supported himself by various jobs such as designing for a silk factory, and later by restoring Old Master paintings for five years with a restorer to the Louvre. First exhibited in 1936 with the Forces Nouvelles group of Gruber, Tal Coat, Pignon, Andr-23 Marchand and others. Influenced by the Primitives, then Courbet, then the Cubists. First one-man exhibition at the Galerie Barreiro, Paris, in 1943 or 1944 and has since painted full-time. In the 1950s his work became more abstracted, with linear patterning and flat patches of colour. He died in 1999,