Etienne Ret Mixed Media Portrait of a Newsboy C.1974

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Etienne Ret Mixed Media Portrait of a Newsboy C.1974

Original mixed media with oil and newspaper

Dimensions 16" wide x … Read more Etienne Ret Mixed Media Portrait of a Newsboy C.1974

Original mixed media with oil and newspaper

Dimensions 16" wide x 21" high

The frame measures 25" wide x 31" high

Signed and dated in the painting - See pics

Very good vintage condition

Etienne Ret (1900 - 1996) was active/lived in California / France. Etienne Ret is known for Portrait, figure and genre painting, monotypes.

Born in Bourbonnais, France on Jan. 6, 1900, Etienne Ret graduated from the College of Mesnieres and completed military service in 1924. He then began formal art training in Paris in the ateliers of Maurice Denis and Georges Desvallieres, and at Ecole des Beaux Arts and Ecole des Arts Décoratifs.

His book of poetry, Blindmans Bluff, was a prize winner in 1929. Ret exhibited in London and Paris before settling in Hollywood in 1934. He taught at the Chouinard Art Institute and was active in Los Angeles through the late 1950s. See less