Lucien Roudier Detto Eller, Flowers in a Vase, 1920s, Oil Painting on Canvas, Framed

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Bright and sophisticated, this "vase of flowers with anemones" is a signed work by the french expressionist painter lucien roudier, … Read more Bright and sophisticated, this "vase of flowers with anemones" is a signed work by the french expressionist painter lucien roudier, known as eller (1894-1940).
close to the expressionists, in the tradition of painters kees van dongen and georges rouault, he is a painter of nightlife, bars, nightclubs, and jazz clubs in marseille, and then in paris from the 1920s onwards. This canvas, created in the style of abstract expressionism and dating to his parisian period, as evidenced by the address of his montmartre studio written on the stretcher, is a true exception: an emerald green vase on a brown background from which a lush bouquet of flowers practically explodes, in bright shades of white, red, blue, and yellow, the colors expertly applied with a palette knife, dense, creating a powerful image that strikes the viewer, just like his cabaret ladies. Biography: lucien roudier, born january 2, 1894 in marseille, died march 16, 1940 in paris, was a french artist, painter, and illustrator, who signed his works with the pseudonym eller (from his initials l.r.). Lucien eller was a painter of nightlife, bars, nightclubs, and jazz clubs in marseille, and then in paris starting in the 1920s. A graduate of the société des beaux-arts in marseille, where he was born, he arrived in paris after the first world war, where he witnessed the parisian nights of the roaring twenties. An illustrator, he collaborated in marseille on the women's pages of le soleil de marsiglia and in paris on the magazines le rire and fantasio. As a painter, he exhibited in paris at the devambez gallery and at the salons des indépendants. A former soldier, he created the salon of veteran artists, painters, and sculptors, which was inaugurated every year on the banks of the seine by the president of the republic. Decorated with the legion of honor in 1938, he was also one of the founders of the club des marseillais de paris. He was classified as a freemason by the vichy government. He died prematurely in march 1940 in his workshop at 5 rue clauzel in lower montmartre.

measurements: canvas 55 x 47 cm, frame 67 x 58 cm this piece has an attribution mark,
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