CAMBIER Guy (1923-2008) Bouquet of flowers in landscape oil on wood Good condition

  

Top 41 x 33 cm wide. Frame to be restored Provenance Private collection, France Note Belgian painter, Guy Cambier has a fascination for Rembrandt after visiting a retrospective of his work at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

It was at the age of nineteen that he had his first exhibition at L'Art belge, a presentation after which his work was noticed. In 1950, the painter left his native Belgium to settle on the French Riviera. It was a time of recognition. Cambier collected awards: Young Mediterranean Painting Prize in Nice (1956), participation in the Biennale of Menton (1958). He was the subject of regular exhibitions in Nice, Cannes, Paris, Lyon, Geneva and Zurich. Acquisitions were made by the French State and by several American collections in New York and San Francisco. He painted portraits of Gérard Philipe, Princess Grace of Monaco, Winston Churchill, Ingrid Bergman and his friend Stéphane Grappelli.

Although an admirer of the painters of the Northern School, he had no intention of continuing their work as a copyist. Thus, Cambier's painting is luminous, expressive, with a certain pictorial materiality. A very beautiful composition in the style of Rembrandt, a great painter.