Beronneau Andrė

Andrė Beronneau (1896 -1973),Salonique, the mosque of the dervish turners 1917 watercolor

Andrė Beronneau was born in Bordeaux, France. Specialized in painting harbor scenes of Brittany and the Cote d’Azur. Studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Paris. Beronneau exhibited regularly at all the principal Paris exhibitions and gained many awards and distinctions, the Silver Medal of the Salon d’Hiver and the Fargeon Prize of the Salon […]

Beleys Colette

Born in Paris, died in Ennery (Val’d Oise) French / Parisian modernist who studied art at the French National School of Art as well as in the studios of Paul Colin, Charles Leandre and Lucien Simon in the 1930s. Her paintings can be found in French National Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Grenoble, Museum […]

Bayol Gustave

Gustave Bayol (1859 -1931), Macedonian girls, Polock and Salonica 1917, watercolors

Born in Avignon, died in Angers. French sculptor and designer, representative of French Belle Epoque style. He is one of the most famous carousel builders. During the Great War, Bayol was allocated in Thessaloniki where he made several drawings and watercolors. The auction house Neret-Mignet & Tessier Paris, France sold a drawing on 15 Oct […]

Balke Charles Theodor

Theodor Charles Balke ((1875 -1951),Lac Presba (lake Prespa, Greece ) 1919 watercolor

Born on April 29, 1875, in Faulquemont in the Moselle region of France, Balke was a student of Bouveray and Suvand in Paris. He became an exhibiting member of the Paris Salons in 1920s and in 1929 exhibited at the Salon de la Nationale des Beaux-Arts under name Balke-Gry. Listed in Benezit. Theodor Charles Balke […]

Amable Benoist

Benoist Amable (XIX-XX), Kavadar, watercolors (1915)

Very little information can be found about this painting, who lived and worked in Toulouse, France in the period 1900-1940 and who was in the Macedonian front around 1917, where he created a set of watercolors of Kavadarci, Krivolak, Vardar Valley, Thessaloniki and the Greek Macedonian villages. The whole set of watercolors was unfortunately scattered […]