Signed Venice lagoon scene by Pierre Forest, three lateen sails in ochre and rose above a blue hulled boat, oil on board in a carved giltwood frame

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Pierre Forest, Sailing Boats on the Venice Lagoon, Signed Oil on Board, Early 20th Century, Carved Gilt Frame

Pierre Forest (1881-1971)

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The framed Venice scene hung above a marble topped console with a brass telescope, books and white hydrangeas (Pierre Forest Venice lagoon)

Reverse showing a printed biographical notice of the painter cut from a reference work and pasted to the backing board (Pierre Forest Venice lagoon)

Signed Venice scene by Pierre Forest, sailing boats before the Doge's Palace and campanile, 18 x 21 inches framed. Shipped free to the USA and Canada.

Macro of the sails laid on with the knife in three unmixed values, the figures set down in three or four strokes each, and the signature at the lower right

Macro of the signature P. Forest brushed in dark blue over the turquoise water, with a gondola told in a single black curve above it

Macro of the hand carved giltwood frame with its water leaf ornament, the gilding worn to an ochre red ground and small losses scattered along the mouldings

Macro of the lower right corner, the signature P. Forest in dark blue over the water, a gondola in a single black curve, and the carved gilt ornament of the frame beside it

The sails are the only thick paint in the picture. Loaded orange, rose and cream, laid on with the knife and standing off the board, while the water and the sky are scraped thin.

Oil on board, 18 x 21 inches (46 x 53 cm), 22 x 25 inches (56 x 64 cm) framed. Signed Forest lower right. French, early twentieth century, in a carved giltwood frame.

Three lateen sails rise across the right of the picture, a fourth further off, the boats beneath them crowded with small dark figures in blue and red. The lagoon runs flat and green blue to a low quay in the middle distance, with a campanile and a long pale facade drawn in three or four strokes of pink and white. A gondola crosses the lower right corner. The whole surface is worked with the knife, the paint dragged in flat planes and left with its edges showing.

Sails that were already disappearing
The lateen rigged fishing boats of the lagoon carried tan and rose sails, dyed with earth pigments and oxide, and each family painted its own device on them. Motors replaced them within a generation. A painter working in Venice in these years was not painting the monuments, which is why the palace behind is three strokes of pink and the sails carry all the paint in the picture.

The board is sound and the paint layer stable throughout, the knife work standing off the surface as it was left.

Provenance ▾

Private collection, France

Artist

Pierre Forest (1881-1971)

Period

Early 20th century

Origin

France

Style

Post-Impressionism

Medium

Oil on board

Signature

Signed Forest lower right

Frame

Hand carved giltwood frame with water leaf ornament and scrolled corners, the gilding worn to the red ground along the crests, with small losses to the ornament.

Features

Original, one of a kind, signed

Painting

18 x 21 inches

Framed

22 x 25 inches

Condition

Good original condition. The board is sound and the paint layer stable throughout, the knife work standing off the surface as it was left.

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