The Funfair By Pierre Vérité Around 1930-40

Oil on canvas measuring 73cm x 60cm signed lower right P. VERITE titled on the back Funfair with name and address of P.VERITE Several customs stamps showing that this painting has traveled abroad Pierre VERITE especially known as a merchant of Premier Art (one of the greatest experts) was also a painter and draftsman. His collection, which 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 is a painter and draftsman and begins the brokerage of works. He will open his first "boutique", the Galerie Arnault, in Paris in 1934; then in 1937 the Galerie Carrefour, boulevard Raspail, which will become a place frequented by all the artists of the time, amateurs of “Art Nègre” 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 travels and exhibitions; will acquire African but also Oceanian objects. The painting that I propose to you is quite rare, it comes directly from the estate of his son Claude VERITE who has always lovingly kept it His expressionist, surrealist and abstract painting remains in the current of the beginning of the 20th century which will be a laboratory quite exceptional pictorial research he died in 1993 free shipping worldwide