Portraits

Portrait of a man in a grey suit and brown tie. Unsigned oil on cardboard, painted around 1950. 

Paul Gabriel Alexis Rivoire, French post-impressionist painter, born on 5 March 1902 in Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Savoie, Rhône-Alpes). The son of a silk manufacturer, he developed artistic talent from an early age. He trained with artists such as Lucien Jonas and Jean Bugnard in Annecy. He settled in Grenoble after the end of the Second World War, and his work consists mainly of landscapes, portraits and still lifes in oil, gouache and watercolour, his style being strongly influenced by the work of Cézanne. His paintings always bear witness to his concern to balance colour and form. 

He exhibited at the Société des Peintres de montagne, the Salon des Artistes français and the Salon d'Automne between 1936 and 1982. He was awarded first prize by the Fondation Hébert d'Uckermann in 1974, the Prix Vaujany in 1975, the third medal of the Société lyonnaise des beaux-arts in 1977 and congratulations from the committee of the Salon de la peinture à l'eau in Paris.

Paul Rivoire died on 7 September 1984 in La Tronche (Isère).

Sources: Les Peintres de la Savoie 1860-1980, Anne Buttin and Sylvain Jacqueline, Neva Editions (2015); Bulletin de la Société des Amis des Arts de Grenoble, article by F. de Buttet; Archives de France.

Artist: Paul Rivoire (1902-1984)
Unsigned.
Medium : Oil on cardboard.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions : 65 x 49 cm. / 25 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.
Frame: 88 x 73 cm. / 34 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. Very good condition.
Origin : France.

Interesting oil on canvas portrait of a woman seated in an armchair, executed circa 1930 and signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Modern gilt frame.

Marie Yvonne Mondin was a French painter and printmaker born in Condom (Gers) on 22 December 1888 and died in Paris on 13 December 1967. She exhibited regularly between 1924 and 1960 at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Independants, and had her studio in Montparnasse. Married in 1926 to the Swiss painter and engraver Kurt Oskar Manz (1900-1989), her work includes mainly landscapes, still lifes and portraits. A very restless artist, her pictorial style ranged from post-impressionism to expressionism, passing through naïf in her last period. She collaborated with her husband in the creation of numerous lithographs and engravings.

Sources: Dictionnaire des Peintres à Montmartre, Ed. Roussard, 1999; Archives de France.

Artist: Yvonne Mondin (1888-1967).
Signed in the lower right.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 55 x 46 cm. / 21 3/4 x 18 in.
Frame: 69 x 60 cm. / 27 x 23 1/2 in. Very good condition.
Origin: France.