Camille Hilaire Vintage Oil Painting on Canvas
Item Details
Camille Hilaire (France/Germany, 1916 – 2004)
Untitled (horses), mid-20th century
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to lower right
An original vintage oil painting on canvas by very well-listed 20th century artist Camille Hilaire (France/Germany, 1916 – 2004). The painting depicts three jockeys and horses painted in a Cubist-Modernist style. The painting is signed in black to the lower right and is presented in a wooden frame with gold tone finish and a hanging wire.
Hilaire attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studied under André Lhote. After traveling and painting throughout the 1930s, Hilaire was drafted into the army, was taken prisoner, escaped, and secretly re-enrolled at Beaux-Arts. He was awarded the Prix de Venise and the Prix de la Casa de Velázquez, and begin exhibiting in prominent institutions in the 1950s.
The proceeds from the sale of this item will benefit Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm. See link below for more information.
Dimensions
- measures frame. Visible image area measures 31" W x 11.5" H.
Item #
18CIN517-841
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