Claude Venard (1913-1999), Nature Morte à La Cafetière painting, 1942.

Claude VENARD, French painter born March 21, 1913 in Paris (75), died December 30, 1999 in Sanary-sur-Mer (83). He was a student at the École des Arts Appliqués. He began painting at the age of 17, and was employed as a restorer at the Louvre Museum from 1936 to 1939, when he was mobilized. During this troubled period, Claude VENARD managed to paint and sell his canvases to art dealers. With the war over, he devoted himself entirely to his painting, exhibiting mainly in Parisian salons from 1945 to 1963 (Salon des Indépendants, des Tuileries, de Mai). From 1953 onwards, however, he held solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
His post-Cubist style employs a palette of raw tones in a rich, unctuous material. His growing renown earned him a place in major private collections and museums around the world, including the Whitney Museum in New York, the Tate Gallery, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Dallas, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris and many others.
This superb work, an oil on canvas still life with coffee pot dated (19)42 on the back, reflects his art's total dedication to Cubism and the use of colors typical of his palette.
Dimensions: Height 55 cm. Width 46 cm (70 cm x 60, 7 cm with original frame).
Artist's signature lower right of the composition.
Good condition. To be perfectly precise, we must point out the presence of craquelures generating some slight apertures in the canvas, with no effect on the aesthetics and no danger whatsoever for this work appraised to be sold in 1999 by the Maison R&C auctioneers' office in Marseille as part of a catalogued sale.
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