Abstract painting and assemblage by French ‘Beat Era’ artist and photographer, Andre Vigneau (1892 - 1968). Oil on metal, mounted on painted masonite. Framed. Signed and dated by the artist, lower right, “Andre Vigneau 1960).

SIZE: Painting - 15.5” x 16” (39 cm x 41 cm) / Frame - 16.5” x 17.5” (42 cm x 43.5 cm)

PROVENANCE: Conor Hennessy Collection, San Francisco.

NOTES: Andre Vigneau studied at the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux in 1905 - 1910. He was best known as a photographer, studio owner, and painter in Paris from the 1920’s - 1960’s. During the early 20th century his work was in the Surrealist style and he was a friend and contemporary of Man Ray , both of whom experimented with and developed various photographic techniques. during the 1950’s and 1960’s his work became more abstracted and in 1963, he invented a neologism, the “halogramme” to signify that an object remains in its halo of light. His rare painted works are held in a number of important private and museum collections.

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Good original condition with no restoration. Frame with normal wear and small touch-ups.