Painting Belgium Animated Countryside Landscape Signed Guy Cambier ( 1923-2008)

Oil on canvas 41 cm x 33 cm, sold with its gilded frame, dancing from the 80s, signed lower left Guy Cambier and representing a countryside landscape animated by characters. Sold with invoice-certificate. Perfect condition. Belgian painter, Guy Cambier developed a fascination for Rembrandt after visiting a retrospective of his work at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. It was at the age of nineteen that he gave his first exhibition at L'Art belge, a presentation at the end of which his work was noticed. In 1950, the painter left his native Belgium to settle on the Côte d'Azur. It was a time of recognition. Cambier collected awards: the Young Mediterranean Painting prize in Nice (1956), participation in the Menton Biennale (1958). He was regularly given exhibitions in Nice, Cannes, Paris, Lyon, Geneva and Zurich. Acquisitions were made by the French State and by several American collections in New York and San Francisco. He painted portraits of Gérard Philipe, Princess Grace of Monaco, Winston Churchill, Ingrid Bergman and his friend Stéphane Grappelli. Although an admirer of the painters of the École du Nord, it was out of the question for him to continue their work as a copyist. Thus Cambier's painting is luminous, expressive, with a certain pictorial materiality.