The Green Chair, Montmartre Studio
Signed
Size (inches) : 29.5 (h) x 29.5 (w)
Size (cm) : 75 (h) x 75 (w)
Frame Size (inches) : 37.5 (h) x 37.5 (w)
Frame Size (cm) : 95.2 (h) x 95.2 (w)
View on background colour: Dark Graphite
The Green Chair, Montmartre Studio
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Circa 1975
Provenance: Private Collection, London
Claude Venard’s The Green Chair, Montmartre Studio is a vibrant and rhythmically composed interior scene that reflects the artist’s enduring fascination with the objects and atmosphere of the studio environment. Built from bold black contours and interlocking planes of colour, the composition transforms everyday furnishings and still life elements into a lively orchestration of form, pattern, and abstraction.
Dominated by cool blues, soft greens, deep blacks, and touches of warm ochre and white, the painting possesses a striking chromatic harmony. The distinctive green chair anchors the composition, while surrounding objects - vessels, flowers, tabletops, and studio furnishings - emerge through simplified geometric shapes and expressive linework. Venard’s confident outlines and flattened spatial perspective reveal the influence of Cubism, yet the work retains a distinctly personal warmth and spontaneity through its tactile surface and animated brushwork.
The composition captures the creative intimacy of the Montmartre studio, balancing structure with playful visual improvisation. Objects overlap and interact across the canvas in a carefully controlled rhythm, creating both movement and depth within the compressed pictorial space.
In The Green Chair, Montmartre Studio, Venard elevates the familiar language of the artist’s interior into a sophisticated modernist composition, rich with colour, energy, and painterly invention.
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Circa 1975
Provenance: Private Collection, London
Claude Venard’s The Green Chair, Montmartre Studio is a vibrant and rhythmically composed interior scene that reflects the artist’s enduring fascination with the objects and atmosphere of the studio environment. Built from bold black contours and interlocking planes of colour, the composition transforms everyday furnishings and still life elements into a lively orchestration of form, pattern, and abstraction.
Dominated by cool blues, soft greens, deep blacks, and touches of warm ochre and white, the painting possesses a striking chromatic harmony. The distinctive green chair anchors the composition, while surrounding objects - vessels, flowers, tabletops, and studio furnishings - emerge through simplified geometric shapes and expressive linework. Venard’s confident outlines and flattened spatial perspective reveal the influence of Cubism, yet the work retains a distinctly personal warmth and spontaneity through its tactile surface and animated brushwork.
The composition captures the creative intimacy of the Montmartre studio, balancing structure with playful visual improvisation. Objects overlap and interact across the canvas in a carefully controlled rhythm, creating both movement and depth within the compressed pictorial space.
In The Green Chair, Montmartre Studio, Venard elevates the familiar language of the artist’s interior into a sophisticated modernist composition, rich with colour, energy, and painterly invention.
