Code: 5076
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A beautiful signed and dated 1953 French naïf oil on canvas depicting the River Seine at the Pont Neuf, by Louis Florquin.
Excellent quality and condition work by this rare artist who is featured in Anatole Jakovsky's " Peintres Naifs" - considered the bible of French naïf painters.
Presented in a superb carved and painted wood Montparnasse frame.
Artist: Louis Florquin (French, 1880-1961)
Title: Pont Neuf
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 21.5 x 15.5 inches (55 x 42 cm) including the frame
Louis Florquin was born in Roubaix, France, where he raised a family before
becoming interested in painting. At the age of sixty, he took up painting as a profession and had works exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. His subjects include Paris scenes and the countryside.
There is a small book written concerning him “Louis Florquin and other French masters of popular painting" and he was included in "Peintres Naifs" by Anatole Jakovsky.
