FRANCOIS NARDI 1861 - 1936 OIL ON CANVAS SAILING VESSEL WITH REGATTA IN DISTANCE

A Sailing Vessel at sea with a regatta in the distance.

Francois Nardi 1861 - 1936

Oil on Canvas signed at bottom right (c1890s)

Size - 54cm x 40cm (canvas)
 

This is a very beautiful late 19th century oil on canvas by the well listed French/ Italian artist Francois Nardi whos works regularly fetch high four figure plus sums at auction.

The painting is housed in what appears to be its original gilt frame and has a label on the back for a Toulon (Nardi lived in Toulon) art supplier.

Condition , the painting has a small amount of flaking on the left hand side and could do with a clean, it has not been relined.

We guarantee that this painting is a fully signed work by Francois Nardi 1860 - 1936

François Nardi (7 December 1861, Nice – 28 November 1936, Toulon) was a French painter of Italian heritage who specialized in maritime scenes.

His parents were Italian immigrants from Campi Bisenzio, near Florence. He displayed an early talent for art and left the family's millinery business to paint in the countryside. There, he was noticed by Frédéric Montenard, the noted Provençal painter, who was impressed with his work and encouraged him to study in Paris.
 
In 1887, he enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he studied with Tony Robert-Fleury. Two years later he won first prize at the Academy's exhibition and displayed his work at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1890, his canvas "La rade de Toulon : effet de mistral" (The Harbor at Toulon, Mistral effect) was purchased by the French government and his career was launched. Over the next ten years, he was invited to participate in several international exhibitions, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
 
The details of his life at this time are sketchy, but he appears to have divided his time between Toulon and his studios in Paris on Montmartre where he met with colleagues from the Académie Julian. He was especially supportive of foreign artists studying in France, such as Emanuel Phillips Fox, E. Irving Couse and Umberto Veruda. In 1891, upon the recommendation of Montenard, he accepted the well-known Brazilian painter Giovanni Battista Castagneto as a student, showing him how to brighten his palette and paint maritime subjects.

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