André Vignoles, French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Andre Vignoles Wooded Landscape

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Andre Vignoles (French, 1920-2017), "Paysage de LIsle de France," oil on canvas depicting a tranquil French … Read more Hand signed lower right

Andre Vignoles (French, 1920-2017), "Paysage de LIsle de France," oil on canvas depicting a tranquil French countryside landscape with winding trees overlooking an open grassy field rendered in an expressive Impressionist style. The composition features rich green, brown, and golden tones with textured brushwork creating a luminous atmospheric effect throughout. Artist signed lower right "A. Vignoles." The verso bears the handwritten title "Paysage de L'Isle de France." Presented in an ornate giltwood frame with a bronzed metal nameplate at the lower center. Provenance: Property from a Jupiter Island, Florida estate.
Dimensions: Framed 21 X 24 X 2 in. Without frame: 13 x 16

André Vignoles
French Painter Mentored by Pierre Bonnard
André Vignoles (1920–2017) was a French painter of landscapes, still lifes, and portraits, celebrated for a richly colored palette and an Impressionist-inflected handling of light drawn from his study of Cézanne, Van Gogh, and the Primitives of the 15th century. Born in Clairac, in southwestern France, on August 5, 1920, Vignoles showed an early gift for drawing and pursued classical studies before turning fully to painting, first studying under a student of Henri Flandrin — himself trained in the atelier of the Symbolist master Gustave Moreau, whose studio also produced Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault.
In 1945, Vignoles married and settled in Vallauris, the Provençal town on the Côte d'Azur that would soon become internationally famous as Pablo Picasso's ceramics workshop; like Picasso, Vignoles supported himself decorating ceramics there while devoting his spare hours entirely to painting. That same year marked the defining encounter of his early career: Vignoles met the great Post-Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard, who offered the young artist both advice and encouragement, and specifically urged him to relocate to Paris to pursue his career in earnest.
Paris and the Salon Circuit
Vignoles followed Bonnard's advice and moved to Paris in 1946. Though he had briefly experimented with Cubism under the influence of Picasso, Vignoles grew "repelled" by what he considered an overly intellectual and decorative direction in the Cubist and abstract art then dominating the Paris scene, turning instead to sustained study of the Old Masters at the Louvre. In 1948, he began exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne, eventually becoming a member of its governing council. He joined the Salon des Indépendants in 1950, exhibited at the Salon des Jeunes Peintres from 1951 (later elected to its committee), and went on to show at the Salon des Terres Latines, the Salon des Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, the Salon des Peintres Témoins de Leur Temps, the Salon des Artistes Français, the Salon des Tuileries, and the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts — placing him at the center of the Paris salon circuit for French figurative and landscape painters throughout the 1950s.
He was of the period of the art movement called "La Jeune Peinture" ("Young Picture") of the School of Paris, with painters like Bernard Buffet, Yves Brayer, Jansem, Jean Carzou, Louis Vuillermoz, Pierre-Henry, Daniel du Janerand, Gaston Sébire, Paul Collomb, Jean Monneret, Jean Joyet and Gaëtan de Rosnay.
Among his friends were the painters Daniel du Janerand, Gabriel Deschamps, Louis Vuillermoz, Pierre-Henry, Jean Carzou, Pierre Gaillardot, Rodolphe Caillaux, Jean-Pierre Alaux, Bernard Buffet, André Hambourg, Emilio Grau Sala, Maurice Boitel, Paul Collomb, composer Henri Dutilleux, and the two brothers Ramon and Antoni Pitxot.
Recognition and International Exhibitions
In 1952, the French State made its first purchase of a Vignoles painting, with subsequent acquisitions by both the French State and the City of Paris. He won the Prix de la Cadière d'Azur in 1954, and in 1955 held his first one-man show in Paris — a success that launched further exhibitions not only across France but in London and New York as well. Vignoles continued to paint landscapes across Western Europe throughout his career, working in Spain, Italy, and Capri in addition to his native France, applying a bright, loosely handled Impressionist technique that critics and dealers have compared to Monet's late series paintings of the French countryside. He showed at the prestigious Wally Findlay galleries in New York city along with artists Guy Bardone, Andre Brasilier, Jean Jansem, Bernard Buffet, Bernard Cathelin, and Paul Guiramand, He has shown with Charles Levier, Nicola Simbari, Alain Bonnefoit, Yves Brayer, Yolande Ardissone, Andre Brasilier, Jean Dufy, Raoul Dufy, Claude Gaveau and Andre Verdet.
Vignoles died on July 15, 2017. His work remains actively collected today, with well over 200 paintings recorded at auction, and is held in numerous private and public collections in France and internationally.
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