Bernard Lamotte Watercolor Painting of Street Scene

Item Details

Bernard Lamotte (New York/France, 1903 – 1983)
Untitled (street scene)
Watercolor painting on paper
Signed to lower right

Born in Paris, Bernard Lamotte was known for his paintings of street scenes and modern Parisian city life. He studied at the École des Beaux- Arts under Fernand Corman and Lucien Simon, then eventually settled in New York in 1935. His studio, later coined Le Bocal (The Fishbowl), was located above the restaurant Le Grenouille that was regularly visited by French artists and famed New York personalities, such as Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, and Marlene Dietrich. Within one year of arriving in New York, he was given a solo exhibition at the Wildenstein Gallery. Some of his notable commissions include a mural for the swimming pool room of the White House in 1961, now housed in the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston. Lamotte also worked as an illustrator and theatre designer, and produced illustrations for Flight to Arras by Antoine de Sanit-Expuréryand. An illustrated book about the artist titled Bernard Lamotte, Oil Painting and Brush Drawing was written by Louis Gauthier and published in 1945. Lamotte’s work has been exhibited and collected by numerous institutions including the Dalzell-Hatfield Gallery in Los Angeles, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tokyo Museum, the Luxenbourg Museum, the the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, to name a few. Some private collectors of his work include Joseph P. Kennedy and Alfred Barnes, among others.

Condition

- light toning to painting; scattered accretion to mat and to reverse of glass; nicks and abrasions to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 10" W x 12" H.

Item #

ITMG462757