SOLD-Ocean Still Life Oil Painting on Board by French Interwar Artist Amédée De La Patellière
Beautifully evocative oil on board painting by French Interwar artist, Amédée de La Patellière. Still life composed of found beach objects. Signed bottom left. Circa 1920's-30's.
Dimensions: 24ʺW × 0.15ʺD × 18ʺH
Biography:
Amédée de La Patellière was born in the vineyards of Nantes, at the Château de Bois-Benoît in Vallet, France. He left for Paris in 1910 to take courses at the Académie Julian. He subsequently divided his time between his family home in Bois-Benoît, Paris, and the south of Seine-et-Oise where he settled in the 1920s. He was wounded in action during the First World War. He married Suzanne Lamon in 1924. He was a professor at the Ranson Academy in Paris from 1929 to 1932 and was one of the founding artists of the Young Contemporary Painting group (with Yves Alix, Robert Lotiron and Louis-Joseph Soulas). He is also the friend of Bertrand Mogniat-Duclos. Seriously ill in 1929, he died in Paris in 1932. 19 Of his works are in the collection of the famous Centre Pompidou in Paris. less