Paintings
Jean-Yves Commere
French, 1920-1986Le Bain
Oil on canvas50 ½ by 37 ½ in. W/frame 54 ½ by 41 ½ in.
Signed lower left; also signed on the reverse
Provenance:
Reinchbach Gallery, Houston paper label on the verso and with a Arthur Lenars & Co.
Collection of Mr. Lloyd H. Smith, Palm Beach, Florida
Le Trianon Fine Art & Antiques
Reference:
School of Paris by Raymond Nacenta; Pg. 198-199
See Artist Bio below.
Jean-Yves Commere
French, 1920-1986In 1938 he enters the
In 1951 exhibition at the gallery Monique De Groove, again in 1953, 1955, 1957, then in London, Geneva, New York in 1971, (Gallery Philippe Reichenbach), in Paris in 1985 ( Gallery Guigne). In 1953 he was awarded the Prize of Young Painters and in 1973 the Grand Prize Francis Smith. He has been invited to the Venice Biennale in 1958. After his death retrospective exhibitions took place at the Museum in Paris in 1987 then at the Moulin de Vanboyen in Brievre, then in 1988 “40 years of paintings” in 1989 at the centre Paul Gauguin in Park Oven & the Autumn Salon in Paris.