Large French Oil Painting Chateau Jacques Eitel

Dimensions: H: 42.0, W: 49.5, D: 2 IN

Jacques Eitel (French, 1926-2006) Le Chateau d'O,

Hand signed lower right.

The stretcher is hand inscribed in pencil "Le Chateau d'O" and retains labels from Doyle Auction House New York on the verso indicating prior gallery or auction handling. Presented in a gilt frame with linen liner.

Dimensions: Framed, 42 X 49.5 Work: 32 x 39.5 in.

Oil on canvas original painting depicting a French chateau mansion beside a moat with trees and plants in the foreground. The composition features steep pitched roofs and turreted architecture reflected in the water.

Jacques Eitel was a French Postwar & Contemporary painter born in 1926. He was represented by Wally Findlay Gallery in Palm Beach, New York and Chicago. Eitel (nee Jacques Eitelwein) was born in Paris, France in 1926 to an Alsatian family. He studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Eitel started to exhibit in major group shows in 1946. In 1957 he was awarded the Grand Prix de Montmartre. The French government bought his works as did the City of Paris and the Museum of the Navy.

He began studying at evening school and emerged at the end of 1945 from celebrated “Ecol Boulle”, as a wood sculptor. He, then, studied at the Art Academy and began painting. In 1946, he exhibited for the first time at Montparnasse 80 Salon. He obtains the Odilon Lesur Adrian Prize. Since then, he was partecipated in the big Parisian salons. During the following years, he travelled to Provence, Italy and Spain.He married Yolande Ardissone, herself now a famous artist, in 1950, and in 1952, their daughter Florence was born. Herself also a well established painter now.Eitel has also been involved in film making and won a third prize in a National amateur contest in 1951, and, two years later, produced a short color movie: "La Chanson de Roland" for children.The following years saw him travelling to London, Venice, New York, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, both for exhibitions and for visits. He won the “Prix de Monmatre”, the medal of Honour at the Salon de la Marine, and was elected  in 1957 a Committee member of the Salon de la Jeune Peinture. He began as an established artist in a gallery in Texas, USA, in 1973, and since then exhibited every year in prestigious galleries in the USA. He exhibited regularly at all major Salons of Paris including the Salon de la Jeune Peinture (where he was elected a member of the Directing Committee and the Jury). He also exhibited at the Salon d’Aujourd’ hui. He participated in many group shows in France such as the Ecole de Paris at the Galerie Charpentier, at the Societe des Amateurs D’Arts, the Peinture Française in Vichy, the Bordeaux, and abroad in America, Sweden, Germany, England, Switzerland and Belgium. In 1957 he had a one-man show at the Galerie Raffy, Paris and in 1959 and 1962 he exhibited at the Galerie Framond in Paris and Piccadilly Gallery in London. He was shown at the prestigious Wally Findlay Galleries in the United States 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. His work is

in the following museums: Musee de la Marine, Musee Etat Francais in Paris, Musee de St. Cyprien, Musee Chapelle Saint Colomban. The French Government, The Museum of the French Navy and the City of Paris acquired some of his works. He passed away in 2006.