Lot n° 232
Estimation :
400 - 450
EUR
Robert Vernet-Bonfort: Bouquet of Flowers, 1967 (Gouache and - Lot 232
Robert Vernet-Bonfort: Bouquet of Flowers, 1967 (Gouache and watercolor, with white highlights)
Gouache and watercolor, with white highlights
Dedicated, signed, and dated by hand at the bottom margin: “For Mr. and Mrs. Yves Guérin, with my warmest regards,” signed “Vernet-Bonfort,” dated “67”
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 27 cm (14.17 × 10.63 in.) — Image: full sheet
Condition: good condition, unframed
Provenance: Yves Guérin’s guestbook, compiled between 1963 and 1992 (provenance from a single collection).
Description: A sumptuous bouquet—sunflowers, daisies, a red rose, spikes of blue delphinium, and assorted flowers—in a rounded white vase on a dark table, set against a radiant golden-ochre background, rendered in watercolor and gouache with highlights of white. Robert Vernet-Bonfort was a French painter and lithographer, born in Marseille and trained at its École des Beaux-Arts; profoundly deaf, he made painting his language, and he is known above all for his still lifes featuring “explosions of color,” prized for the finesse of their execution and composition. Regarded as a Provençal master of international renown, he received the Grand Prix from the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation (Montreal, 1965). An early (1967) and particularly accomplished example of his favorite floral subject. Signed, dated, and inscribed by hand.
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