Gallery - In and Around Paris

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GICLEE (ARCHIVE) PRINTS, Printed on Hahnemuhle ‘A3+’ paper.

Large image size (nearer to A3) - £45 (please add £10 if mount required); Small image size (nearer to A4) - £25 (please add £5 if mount required) ; Please note: giclées of drawings are £30 large, £15 small.

CARDS

0 – 5, £ 2.50 each; 5 – 10, £ 2.00 each; Over 10, £1.50 each

 

A Letter from Vincent van Gogh, by Andrew G Forrest, Eastbourne ArtistA Letter from Vincent van Gogh

After art school in Antwerp and before the masterworks of Arles (whence many of his letters), Vincent van Gogh lived in Paris. This shows the courtyard of his second Paris residence (shared with his art-dealer brother Theo), at 54 rue Lepic, Montmartre. Here I have used variations on the vertical to enhance the structural interest of the composition; the gaps in the railings and gate are intended to further open out the scene.

 

 

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Au Lapin Agile (‘Nimble Rabbit’) Cabaret, Montmartre (1), by Andrew G Forrest, Sussex ArtistAu Lapin Agile (‘Nimble Rabbit’) Cabaret, Montmartre

Founded by the 19th century French caricaturist André Gill (hence ‘Lapin Agile’), this celebrated cabaret was the haunt of many artists, including Picasso and Modigliani. Famous international visitors to the Lapin Agile included writer Ernest Hemingway, actress Vivien Leigh, and Charlie Chaplin. I adapted two photographs for this painting, one a daytime scene, the other a very blurred night shot. The drawing that follows is based on several photos - some taken in the late 1990s, another in the 1960s.

 

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Au Lapin Agile (‘Nimble Rabbit’) Cabaret, Montmartre (2), by Andrew G Forrest, Eastbourne Artist

 

Boulevard du Montparnasse, by Andrew Forrest, Sussex Artist

Boulevard du Montparnasse

The source for these acrylics of Paris at night were photographs taken on a long weekend in November 2009. In the first, ‘La Coupole’ , the restaurant on the left, was a favourite haunt of the Existentialists, notably Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, also the dancer Josephine Baker. The second acrylic shows the Place du Tertre enjoying a relatively restful Sunday evening.

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Place du Tertre, Montmartre, by Andrew Forrest, Eastbourne Artist

Place du Tertre, Montmartre

 

 

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