Very thick, textured oil on canvas measuring 38″ x 40″.Regis Bouvier de Cachard was the son of the French aristocrat Count Gustave Regis de Bouvier de Cachard de Montmeyran and his wife Simone Vuillaume. Regis was born in Paris, France, 1929.He won a drawing competition in the Parisian newspaper “Aujourd Hui” aged 11. At age 14, he became the youngest student ever to enroll in the Ecole Boulle, and he found himself with students aged 17-25. His tutor for Grauvre Au Burin, Danjon, said Regis engraved like Rembrandt.When he left the Ecole Boulle, Regis De Cachard worked for the Marchesson Textile Studio designing on silk for the Haute Couture. He became one of the top textile designers of Paris for about 10 years. After a car accident he abandoned his career, left his first wife, and went to Venice without telling anyone.Mesmerized by the beauty of this city, he started to paint and was immediately successful. His paintings were bought by the director of the Hotel Gritti and George Prade, collaborator on Salvador Dali’s book “The Apocalypse” when Prade was counsel municipal of Paris. De Cachard’s paintings were also purchased by Pierre Christian Taittinger, Mayor of Paris, and Philippe Menard, Director of the Paris Restaurant, Maxims, where Regis dined regularly.His work was also bought by Americans and came to the attention of American dealers Sol Saperstein in New York and and Martin Lowitz in Los Angeles. De Cachard arrived in London 1957 where he met Sheila Woods. They were married in Chelsea in 1959 and left almost immediately for the USA, traveling to New York on the Queen Elizabeth and then driving across America to California. There he worked successfully with Martin Lowitz, who sold his paintings to members of the “Rat Pack” whose celebrity members were Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Peter Lawford. De Cachard was a distant cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, whom he met at Harry’s Bar in Venice, and he painted a posthumous portrait of President John Kennedy shortly after his assassination. The portrait was donated to the Kennedy family by Martin Lowitz.We can ship it in house $150, free local pick up

some wear on frame, some cracking or chipped paint see pictures