"The Checkered Tablecloth By Jean Claude Imbert 1919-1993"
Oil on cardboard measuring 31cm x 46cm plus frame with slightly chipped gilding 39cm x 55cm signed top right J CL. IMBERT very good condition except frame Jean Claude IMBERT is one of those great painters that Provence has known Born in Paris in 1919, it was in the Gard that he established himself Exhibitor from 1947 at BERNHEIM, Bardes, Chardin then Mourlot and Jouvène in Marseille, International Exhibitions in Los Angeles, Munich, Liège, Italy He was appointed professor of painting at the Beaux-Arts in Avignon in 1957, then in 1962 appointed to the Beaux-Arts in Aix en Provence He decorated many Chapels including; Dominicans of Grenoble, the baptistery of the church of Saint Jean de Malte in Aix en Provence, commission of a fresco by the Hospital of Nice, etc... Very good designer, excellent watercolorist, executing large panels in oil by adding all sorts of materials, sand, earth, cement the research with this artist was constantly inexhaustible The breath of this immense creator will cease in 1993 The friends and heirs of Jean Claude Imbert have published a book which will be given with the painting in 1995 Many retrospective exhibitions have been organized since his death International exhibitions in Los Angeles, Munich, Liège, Italy free shipping for the European Union 230 euros for International