Alexandre

[böckchen]

I like the display and presentation.
 Excellent uniform plates!
 Are all works from you thus assigned?

[errant49]

Hi Alexander


Exept for Douchkine, whose style is usually an evidence, it is often difficult to identify some painters
This is sometimes the case between Hamel and Alexandre
But here I keep thinking it is Alexandre (I also asked C.Terana who agreed)
I have some Hamel figures which I will post and the way is slightly different
At the last Drouot auction I bought the Louis XIV court by Alexandre; when I get it we will compare

About a book on flat figures painters, past and present, it woul be a great idea
There are enough of them to make something really nice

Eric

[aba]

Dear Eric,


I agree but with these figures I would rather think of Hamel being the painter.


Best regards


Alexander


P.S. I think it might be an idea to have a reference book on "the flats painters" i.e. from "pere" Hamel, Alexandre, Douchkine, Brandt, Glaser and Rieche to the more modern ones like Fischer etc.

[marko]

Agree these make a fine presentation of what was a very colorful period.


Mark 

[errant49]

Alexandre was a french painter of flats who worked from the 1930's to the 1960's for french and foreign collectors; many of his pâinted figures where ordered by Charles Felix Keller, the famous swiww collector.
His way of painting is between old and new style; paint is rather bright but volume is not bad and he loved painting little details.
I do like the way he painted XVIII° century armies as shown in the following pictures
Eric