Fall for abstraction

October 17, 2023
Claude Venard, Bateaux

We welcome the autumn season with a special feature about abstract art, including artworks by French artists Claude Venard, Othello Radou, Alfred Vachon, and Frédéric de Luca. 

 

 

 

Othello Radou (1910-2006)
Les Couleurs d’Été (left)
Oil on canvas: 160 cm x 130 cm
Framed size: 174 cm x 144 cm
Signed and dated 1986-1987

La Palmeraie (right)
Oil on canvas: 160 cm x 130 cm
Framed size: 174 mm x 144 cm
Signed and dated 1963-1980

 

 

 

 

Alfred Vachon (1907-1944)
Composition
Oil on canvas: 28 cm x 46 cm
Framed size: 48 cm x 66 cm
Signed

 


 

 

Artist of the Month
Frédéric de Luca (b. 1949)

 

 

Frédéric de Luca was born in 1949. After obtaining his diploma from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art in Paris, he worked as a fabric designer, executing the designs in gouache, which developed his enthusiasm for the medium. De Luca also specialised in the design of knitwear, and later on in his career he designed shoes for the collections of several prestigious Italian shoe companies. 

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Pictured: La Piscine, gouache on paper: 40 cm x 32 cm (framed size: 58 cm x 50 cm). Signed and dated 2016

 

 

About the author

John Adams

Founded in 1990, John Adams Fine Art specialises in 20th century French art and modern and contemporary paintings and sculpture.John Adams Fine Art also represents the Estates of two exceptional French artists to emerge from the Post War period, Othello Radou (1910 - 2006) and Denise Mannoni (1918 - 2003).