Charles Chartier 1951 French Cubist Modernist Oil Painting Surreal Paris Village

Dimensions: H: 31.5, W: 37.0 IN

Alex Charles Chartier, French, 1894-1957 Oil painting on board

1951 Quartier Plaisance,

Paris village scene Hand signed and dated '51 lower left.

Dimensions:

21" x 25-3/4", frame measures 31-1/2" x 37"

A former agricultural hamlet, the Plaisance district became the favorite place of sculptors, engravers and all kinds of artists in the early 1900s. Populated with individual houses with interior courtyards that have become small workshops, the streets of the district are real places to stroll.

Alex Charles Chartier was a pupil at the Ecole Germain Pilon, then studied landscape architecture at the Ecole Nationale D’Horticulture in Versailles. In 1914 he was mobilized for the duration of the war. He moved to Avignon, where he took lessons at the Ecole des beaux Arts. He began to paint in 1921 and had some lessons with Alfred Lesbros. Chartier was an architect and painter. Best Known for his urban scenes in and around Paris, Chartier painted in a variety of styles reflecting the trends of the 20th century. He worked in Cubist inspired Surrealist, Fauvist scenes with sharp, hard, geometric edges and bold vertical perspectives. His work bears the influence of the Ecole De Paris artists such as Jules Pascin as well as George Grosz and Emil Ganso. He augmented his oils over lava textured encaustic for a textured finish. From 1927 onwards he participated in the Salons of South East France – the Lyons Salon and the Avignon Salon des Independants. He also exhibited in Paris, at the Salon d’Automne, in 1928 and 1937. He decorated the Foyer Communal in Villaure and Foyer du Soldat in Avignon. He experimented with Cubism, Surrealism, Impressionism, Divisionism, Fauvism, Expressionism and Abstraction, earning himself an invitation to the first Salon des Realites Nouvelles in Paris in 1946.