Cordier: Climbing Over The Farm Gates, Rolling Hills, Art Deco Period

Climbing over the farm gates, large rolling landscape, art deco period 1930s French oil

Perfectly capturing the light of early spring is this landscape with rolling hills in which a boy is climbing over wooden farms gates. Painted in soft luminous colours, it is gloriously fresh and has a timeless quality and a hint of art deco.

It is a work from the 1930s by Eugne Maria Cordier (1903 -1974), a franco-german artist from Strasbourg. Cordier studied in Munich with Julius Diez, and worked in Germany as a commercial artist, and graphic designer, specialising in posters. He was also an easel painter, and the oil on canvas presented here bears the rests of an exhibition, probably from the Salon des Independants.

Signed at the lower right, this large oil on canvas measures 53 x 82 cm. The overall size in its original frame is 63 x 91 cm.