This is a very striking Painting (oil on canvas) by the famed Post Impressionist artist William Malherbe (1884-1955). William Malherbe was a French Post Impressionist painter born in 1884. In the 1930’s he exhibited at the gallery Durand Ruel, the famous Paris gallery who’s fortune had been made by backing the Impressionists. Maherbe fled the nazis the Nazi’s in 1939 and he immigrated to New York city exhibiting at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. Here he was highly sort after and some of the examples shown come from this period. He later returned to France in 1948 and passed away in 1955. His works are in the collection of the Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris amongst others. This is a large painting - [;ease note the dimensions.
Frame Dimensions Width 33" (84cm) Height 48" (123cm)
Painting Dimensions Width 24.75" (63cm) Height 40" (102cm)
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