20th c. Oil on canvas signed by Andre Gisson, French Cityscape, 12 x 16"

Description: Andre Gisson (1921 - 2002) was a popular American painter of the French Impressionist style. This is most likely the Place de la Concorde. Conservation:The painting was professionally conserved by a paintings conservator to repair an L shaped tear in the sky/tree.Surface cleaning.Removed from the stretcher bars.Surface deformations were reduced at the tear by slight humidification and drying between blotter paper with weights.Lined with BEVA reversible adhesive to 100% Belgian linen.Canvas stretched to the original stretcher bars using stainless steel staples.The losses were filled with Modostuc and textured.Golden varnish with UV light stabilizers was applied by spray.Losses were inpainted with reversible MSA restoration colors.Golden satin varnish was applied as a finish varnish by spray.Wrapped in silicone release paper to protect the painting. 12 x 16," no frame.14 day return policy. Must be returned in the original packing with the siliconw release paper on the painting.Ships in 1 day. We will insure the painting to the amount of the sale. Double Box Shipping:Wrapped in non-stick silicone release paper to prevent anything touching the painting.Cardboard on both sides.Wrapped in bubble pack.Inserted in a custom cardboard box.Inserted in 2nd larger box.Biography:Many sources cite Andre Gisson as a French painter, but in fact he was a struggling painter in New York City who decided to enhance his reputation by claiming he was French and born earlier (1910) to be more closely aligned with the founders of the Impressionist movement. His real name, according to his son-in-law, Anthony Winston, was Anders Gittelson. The following is an obituary of the artist from the New York Times Classifieds, 8/24/2003:GITTELSON--Anders. A leading American Realist painter, he died on July 28 in Atlanta after a long illness. He was 81. Gittelson, whose brush name was Gisson, was born in 1921 in Brooklyn. He graduated from the Pratt Institute and was a Captain in the Army during World War II. Over four decades, his one-man shows extended from New York, Washington, Texas and California to London, Paris and Tokyo. His work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the Triton Museum of Art, in North Carolina. Among his private collectors were President Lyndon B. Johnson and W. Somerset Maugham. He lived and worked in Westport, Connecticut for 25 years prior to his illness. He was pre-deceased by his sons Glen and David Gittelson and survived by his daughter Cathy Gittelson Winston of Atlanta and his stepchildren Gwen Pier of New York, Bruce Graham of Fairfield, Conn., and Eric Putzig of Bali, Indonesia.Source: Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art

Price: 1100 USD

Location: Santa Cruz, California

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