claude-vallet-french-1927-2018-untitled-olive-trees
Lot 2111
Claude Vallet (French, 1927-2018), Untitled (Olive Trees)
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, circa 1950s, signed lower right, presented in a plain pine frame.

Frame dimensions 32 5/8 x 32 5/8 in.

Claude Vallet studied in Paris and worked for several advertising companies before settling in the South of France in the 1950s. Here, at the foot of the Provençal mountains, he devoted himself to studying and painting the light and colors of the landscape.

Vallet exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Champs-Élysées.

Light surface grime; minor marring to frame.