Funfair By Pierre Verite Circa 1930

Oil on canvas measuring 73cm x 60cm signed lower right P.VERITE Original tab on the back of customs (this painting has been exhibited abroad) Pierre VERITE best known as a Premier Art dealer (One of the greatest experts ) 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 brokerage of 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, which is both expressionist, surrealist and abstract, remains in the course of the early twentieth period which will be a laboratory from quite exceptional pictorial research he died in 1993 free shipping worldwide