The Flower Seller By Pierre Verite 1900-1993

Oil on canvas measuring 33cm x 41cm plus modern frame 53cm x 45cm signed lower left VERITE original label on the back of La Galerie du Verseau (circa 1930) in Paris Pierre VERITE, best known as an Art dealer, was also a painter and designer His Collection remained quite mysterious, hit the headlines at the beginning of the 21st century by reaching record prices Born in 1900, Pierre Vérité bought his first African object in the 1920s. He was a painter and designer and began to broker works . He opened his first “boutique”, Galerie Arnault, in Paris in 1934; then in 1937 the Carrefour Gallery, boulevard Raspail, which will become a place frequented by all the artists of the time, amateurs of “Negro Art” and by collectors from all over the world. Claude, his son, joined his father and his mother Suzanne in the 1950s. The gallery grew in importance. The father and the son will alternate trips and exhibitions; will acquire African objects but also Oceanic ones. The painting that I am offering you is quite rare, it comes directly from the estate of his son Claude VERITE who has always lovingly kept it His painting, both expressionist, surrealist and abstract, remains in the course of the early twentieth period which will be a laboratory of fairly exceptional pictorial research, free shipping all over the world.