Pierre Ambrogiani (1907-1985) Bouquet With Red Vase

A creamy, almost sculptural material and an explosion of colors. Everything that made the fame and success of the Provençal master Pierre Ambrogiani.
In its good original condition, the work is offered in a pretty golden frame which measures 101 cm by 75 cm, and 81 cm by 54 cm for the canvas alone.
It represents a red vase from which multicolored flowers emerge made from a thick and sensual paste that we want to touch.
A painting signed lower right, powerful, which leaves no one indifferent.

A self-taught artist, influenced by Seyssaud and Chabaud, he was encouraged in his early days by Antoine Serra who lent him his studio.
In 1936, during the inauguration of the Maison de la Culture in Marseille, he met Picasso who became one of his friends (the homage to Picasso 1962);
Caricaturist for the "Radical", he experienced his first success in 1938 when the Museum of Fine Arts in Marseille bought a work from him.
A very popular and particularly colorful character from Marseille, Pierre Ambrogiani is a friend of Marcel Pagnol and Jean Giono. His workshop is located at Cours d'Estienne d'Orves, near the Old Port. He travels the countryside with his car which serves as his workshop, painting on the motif. He moved into a workshop on the Quai Rive Neuve in Marseille in 1943.
Renowned for his palette of bright colors, he paints southern landscapes and still lifes of fish. He also engraves numerous plates to illustrate works.

In 1962, he decorated the Immaculée-Conception church in Marseille with frescoes and stained glass windows.
We owe him a postage stamp, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, in 1961.
Forced by illness and infirmity to stop painting in 1973, Pierre Ambrogiani died in 1985 and was buried in the Saint-Pierre cemetery in Marseille. His body was transferred to the Sault cemetery, in Vaucluse.

Works in Public Collections

     Ajaccio, Palais Fesch (Museum of Fine Arts), Self-portrait
     Avignon, Calvet Museum.
     Châlons-en-Champagne, museum of fine arts and archeology: Le Port, Les Marquisans.
     Châteauneuf-le-Rouge, Arteum Museum of Contemporary Art
     Marseille, Museum of Fine Arts: Boats.
     Marseille, Cantini Museum.
     Marseille, Regards de Provence Museum.
     Meudon, museum of art and history: The Old Port of Marseille, 19537.
     Montpellier, Fabre Museum.
     Paris, print cabinet of the National Library of France.
     Paris, National Museum of Modern Art.
     Pully, Art Museum.
     Saint-Chamas, Paul-Lafran Municipal Museum, Portrait of René Seyssaud, 1950.
     Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales), The collections of Saint-Cyprien.
     Sète, Paul-Valéry Museum, Bord du Jarret, 1944.
     Toulon, Art Museum.
     Toulouse, National Institute of Applied Sciences

     Collective exhibitions
     Maison de la culture de Marseille, 1936.
     Autumn Salon, Paris, 1937.
     Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1948.
     Exhibition of bullfighting art presented by Pena de Bernui, Society of Southern Artists, Palais des arts de Toulouse, 1956
     Salon of painters witnesses of their time, Palais Galliera, Paris, 1957 (theme: Sport; canvas presented: Water skiing 1961 (theme: Richess de la France; canvas presented: Le grain ne mort), 1963, 1967, 1974.
     Marines and Mediterranean ports, Regards de Provence Foundation, Marseille, May-September 2009.
     Corsican painters, Lazaret Ollandini, Ajaccio, October-November 2012.
     Colors and lights, The collections of Saint-Cyprien, June-August 2017.
     Mediterranean stopovers, Regards de Provence Museum, Marseille, June 2017 - January 2018.
     A like Ambrogiani, B like Baboulène, C like Camoin, or the painters of the Mediterranean, Salle Pierre-Puget, Ollioules, November 2017.
     Awards and Recognition
     Menton International Prize, 1951.
     Officer of the Order of Postal Merit, decree of December 17, 1963
     Grand prize at the Salon of painters who witness their time, 1967, for the painting The Death of the Poet
     Gemmail Prize for “painter of light”, Tours, 1968, for the painting Procession in Spain