Claude Venard was a French post-Cubist painter and still life painter. Known for working in a distinctive angular style, he accentuated the chromatic qualities of his palette through thickly applied impasto paint.Born on March 21, 1913, in Paris, France, the artist enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts, but dropped out after just two days; instead, his art education would come from his work repairing paintings with a master restorer at the Louvre Museum.In 1936, Venard participated in a group exhibition of a new art movement that ridiculed the avant-garde in favor of a return to strict and traditional principles of craftsmanship: the Forces Nouvelles, a group that included the painters Pierre Tal-Coat. and Andre Marchand. Venard would eventually rebel against them, forging his own post-Cubist style using a wide color palette roughly applied with a palette knife, creating a "raw" visceral tension of geometric aesthetics. Throughout the 1950s, Venard's paintings became more abstract, as evidenced in Still Life (1955-1956).The artist's works are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Tate Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Tokyo. He died in Savary, France in 1999. This item will sell as "in the style of..................................................................In the style of” works are works by an unknown creator whose style is strongly under the influence of the style of the named master artist. (Source: Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus).Measures: 19 3/4 x 17 inches.

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