Andre Gisson - The Garden Fountain - Oil on Canvas 1960s 24" X 12"

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Fresh from a California estate, this lovely fountain view by world-renowned artist Andre Gisson will fill your room with light. … Read more Fresh from a California estate, this lovely fountain view by world-renowned artist Andre Gisson will fill your room with light. Fountains were one of Gisson's favorite subjects, and this one is sure to please the Gisson collector. Oil on canvas 24" x 12 c. 1960s, signed lower left. Outside frame dimensions are 31' X 19".
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Andre (Gittelson) Gisson (1921 - 2003) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut / France. Andre Gisson is known for Landscape, still life, portrait and figure painting.

Many sources cite Andre Gisson as a French painter, but in fact he was a struggling painter in New York City who decided to enhance his reputation by claiming he was French and born earlier (1910) to be more closely aligned with the founders of the Impressionist movement. His real name, according to his son-in-law, Anthony Winston, was Anders Gittelson.

Following is an obituary of the artist from the New York Times Classifieds, 8/24/2003:

GITTELSON--Anders. A leading American Realist painter, he died on July 28 in Atlanta after a long illness. He was 81. Gittelson, whose brush name was Gisson, was born in 1921 in Brooklyn. He graduated from the Pratt Institute and was a Captain in the Army during World War II. Over four decades, his one-man shows extended from New York, Washington, Texas and California to London, Paris and Tokyo.

His work is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. See less