Vintage Oil Painting a Portrait of a Young Woman by Guy Cambier
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Directory: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Pre 1950: Item # 1484770
Directory: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Pre 1950: Item # 1484770
Please refer to our stock # 1044 when inquiring.
$795.00
An original vintage original oil painting Portrait of a Young Woman by Guy Cambier. Oil on panel signed lower left presented in a beautiful gallery frame image measuring 8 x 10" overall framed size H 18.5" x W 16.25". In very good vintage condition.
Artist Biography:
Guy Cambier was born in Uccle-lez-Bruxelles in 1923. He was a painter of genre scenes, figures, portraits and still life paintings.
He was self taught and studied the techniques and works of those artists he emulated, Corot and Watteau.
Cambier at the age of 19 started to exhibit in 1942, first in Belgium and afterwards in France at the Cote d’Azur as well as in the United States and in Paris at the Salon des Peintres Temoins de leur Temps. In 1957, he received the Parisian award, “Le Prix de la Jeune Peintre."
He moved to the South of France in 1950 and resided in Grasse, where he spent most of the rest of his life.
Cambier became a favorite portrait artist of several celebrities and painted such dignitaries as Princess Grace of Monaco, Winston Churchill, Ingrid Bergman and Edward G Robinson.
His paintings were acquired by the French gover
