Vigny Sylvain (1903-1970)

VIGNY Sylvain (1903-1970)
"Walk in the park"
oil on panel signed lower left
dim: 50 x 65 cm

Self-taught artist, coming from Austria like Willy Eisenschitz and Elfy Haindl-Lapoirie (de) , “He arrived in France in 1929 and, after having experienced an adventurous life in Vienna and Paris, he discovered Nice in 1934 and settled there”. Sylvain Vigny's name remains attached to that of Jean Moulin in that, when he opened the Galerie d'Art Romanin in Nice, the artist was, with the brothers Pierre and Jacques Prévert, Nikos Papatakis, Django Reinhardt and the Nice painter Jean Cassarini, among those one meets there regularly. It was from 1955 that he became a truly recognized figure in Nice art, as were his friends Ben (Benjamin Vautier), Claude Morini and Bernard Damiano. National Museum of Modern Art, Paris. Massena Museum, Nice. Menton Fine Arts Museum. National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg. Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (de), Linz. Our complete catalog on: www.nice-antiques.com