Gérard Sandoz (1902-1995) - Eclatement rougeoyant

Gérard SANDOZ
(1902-1995)
Oil on canvas 65x92 cm signed, titled "Éclatement rougeoyant" and dated 7.7.1970 on the back of the canvas.
Please arrange cleaning and a few small restorations.

Gérard Sandoz was born in Paris in 1902 into a family of jewelers and watchmakers. He began working for Maison Sandoz as a jewelry designer. In 1929 he joined the Union des Artistes Modernes, known by the abbreviation UAM. The aim of this association is to promote and defend modern art.
He produced jewelry with monumental architecture: imposing bracelets, rings with sculpted and structured lines, hefty pendants.
His themes are engraved silver and lacquer in red and black tones. He also experimented with eggshells. He attaches particular importance to visible settings and the attractive colors of his jewelry. The technical execution and the precision of the design are more important to him than the value of the materials. He used hematite, corals, onyx, lapis lazuli, aventurine, jasper and agate. He consistently carried out simple and strict lines, smooth surfaces and corners in colored, finished, polished and matte metals. He depicted scenes of daily life on his lacquered boxes. He is counted among the avant-garde jewelers of his time.
At the end of the 1920s, his father ceded the company to Georges L’Enfant, for whom Gérard worked as artistic director until 1931, when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting and cinema.