Parisian Shopfronts Painting Signed Thomas 1979, Signed, Framed, 1979

About the Item

Thomas. A wide, flat-perspective view along a Paris pavement, painted in a crisp hard-edge style: from the left a grey-green cafe front lettered AUX BONS ENFANTS, then a cream facade with arched windows, clipped bay trees and the HOTEL de PARIS doorway, a blue-and-white striped awning over CAFE TABAC BAR, and finally a violet ANTIQUITES shop with a picture and candlesticks in its window against a peach stucco wall. Colour is cool and graphic - violet-blue, cobalt, dove grey and cream, with pink stucco and mottled weathered patches - and the empty grey pavement runs unbroken across the foreground. No figures appear anywhere. Medium: acrylic on canvas. Signed lower right of the canvas, in black, reading "THOMAS 79". Inscribed on the reverse or mount: THOMAS 79; AUX BONS ENFANTS; CAFE THE VINS; HOTEL de PARIS. Condition: No visible damage to the painted surface; the black frame shows light scuffing along the top edge.

Details

Creator:

Thomas

Creation Year:

dated 1979

Dimensions:

Height: 25.0 in (63.5 cm)
Width: 39.25 in (99.7 cm)
outside of frame

Medium:

acrylic on canvas

Period:

20Th

Condition:

Offered in the condition shown in the photographs.

Reference Number:

VO-112

Documentation:

no certificate or label photographed; the back was not shown

Gallery Location:

THOMAS 79; AUX BONS ENFANTS; CAFE THE VINS