Bozeman Fine Art

11/18/2021

View of Sacre Coeur Paris 1930s.....

10/22/2021

Serge POLIAKOFF
(Russian: b. 1900 – d. 1969)

Galerie Dina Vierny; Paris (1970)

• the 13th of 14 siblings; his father was a native of
Kyrgystan who bred horses for the Russian Army
• times were tough; left home in Moscow as a child
• fled to Constantinople in to escape the
Russian Revolution in 1917
• made it to Paris in 1923 where he supported
himself by playing music.
• Inspired by KANDINSKY, but taught by Abstract
artists Robert and Sonia DELAUNAY.
•.used bold color to compete with stark contrast,
seeking to create an emotional response
• By the 1930’s POLIAKOFF had earned his
reputation as a major abstract artist in
l’Ecole de Paris.

Vintage artist exhibition poster
printed in 1970 by MOURLOT / Paris
framed; very good condition (16171) $ 975

09/21/2021

Novgorad, Russia (1926)
watercolor signed and dated lower left
by Swedish artist Louis SPARRE (b. 1863 - d. 1964)...the year of the great flood that also affected Moscow...it's international trade once made the city of Novgorad
the 2nd most important city in Russia...Novgorad was the first city/state of the Russian republic...from a French art collector living in the Manoir de Mezedern
in Brittany, France

08/14/2021

Paul COLIN
(French: b. 1892 – 1985)

Bal des Arts - Le Bal Ensorcelé 1950

• apprenticed at a printing house as a teenager
to learn the trade from the ground up.
• formal art study at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts
• his poster art captured the 1920-30s Paris jazz
scene with a highly stylized Art Deco focus.
• active in theatre set design for over 40 years
• his 1925 R***e Negre poster helped launch the
career of his muse/mistress Josephine BAKER
• he created almost 2000 different art posters as
well as many costumes and theater stage sets
• recognized as France’s greatest poster artist
• in 2003 Paul COLIN’ ‘Blackbirds at the Moulin
Rouge’ poster sold at Swann Galeries NYC
for $ 167,500 USD

Vintage poster printed in 1950
Rothschild Foundation stamp (rare)
(16268) $785

08/14/2021

Francois DESNOYER
(French: b. 1894 – d. 1972)

Mediterranee Languedoc
Les Joutes a Sete Herault, 1960s
(Water Jousting)

• at 18 he began formal art studies at l’Ecole des Arts
Decoratifs in Paris.
• became a sergeant in the French army in WWI.
• upon his return to Paris after the war he became
enthralled by the Fauve Movement and Cubism.
• he fused the bold colors of Fauvism with the angular
geometry in Cubism
• worked with fellow artists Andre L’HOTE, MARQUET
and GROMAIRE from the 1920s
• His paintings were featured in both the 1925 and 1937
Paris Exposition Universelle
• he regularly exhibited at the Paris Salon des
Independants in the 1930s- 40s
• painted with LEGER and Raoul DUFY in the 1950s
• International fame led to travel to Japan, Hong Kong
and India to paint and exhibit.



Vintage exhibition poster
printed by MOURLOT/Paris in 1960s
framed in very good condition
(16258) $ 1275

08/14/2021

Marcel GROMAIRE
(French: b. 1892 – d. 1971)

Musée National d’Art Moderne 1963

• son of a teacher in Paris
• discovered the art community in Montparnasse
after receiving a Law Degree in Paris in 1909
• enrolled in the Paris Academie de La Palette
• wounded in the WWI Battle de la Somme (1916)
• browns and ochre colors of his studio served
as a ‘filter’ for his early works of art
• elements of Cubism are clearly apparent
• fame arrived when important French art
collector Dr. GIRARDIN bought GROMAIRE’S
entire collection at a Paris gallery exhibition
(later donated to the Paris Musee d’Art Moderne
upon Dr. GIRARDIN’s death)
• by choice, he created only about 10 paintings/yr
• exhibited at Galerie Louis Carre from 1947
• Professor d’Art at l’Ecole National Superieure
• Grand Prix National des Arts Francais in 1958

Vintage exhibition poster
printed by MOURLOT/Paris in 1954
framed in very good condition
(16252) $ 975

08/14/2021

Marcel GROMAIRE
(French: b. 1892 – d. 1971)

Peintures Récentes
Galerie Louis CARRE 1954

• son of a teacher in Paris
• discovered the art community in Montparnasse
after receiving a Law Degree in Paris in 1909
• enrolled in the Paris Academie de La Palette
• wounded in the WWI Battle de la Somme (1916)
• browns and ochre colors of his studio served
as a ‘filter’ for his early works of art
• elements of Cubism are clearly apparent
• fame arrived when important French art
collector Dr. GIRARDIN bought GROMAIRE’S
entire collection at a Paris gallery exhibition
(later donated to the Paris Musee d’Art Moderne
upon Dr. GIRARDIN’s death)
• by choice, he created only about 10 paintings/yr
• exhibited at Galerie Louis Carre from 1947
• Professor d’Art at l’Ecole National Superieure
• Grand Prix National des Arts Francais in 1958

Vintage exhibition poster
printed by MOURLOT/Paris in 1954
framed in very good condition
(16248) $ 875

08/14/2021

Jacques VILLON
(French: b.1875 – d. 1963)

Man - Abstract Composition - 1964

• born Emile GASTON DUCHAMP to a family of
artists that included brother Marcel DUCHAMP
and Raymond DUCHAMP-VILLON
• chose Jacques VILLON as pseudonym to
distinguish himself from the other artists in his
family and honor medieval poet Francois VILLON
• while classical works by Edgar Degas first
captured his interest, he gradually shifted to
art movements of the day; Fauvism, Cubism
and Abstract Impressionism.
• helped bring European Modern Art to NYC in
1913 at the prestigious NY Armory Art Show.
• by the1930’s he was more famous in America
than in Europe
• awarded Grand Prix at the 1956 Venice Biennale

Vintage lithograph
printed by MOURLOT/Paris in 1964
framed in very good condition
(16200) $ 685

06/26/2021