Germain Van der Steen (1887-1985) - Fleurs

Very beautiful work, a composition of flowers with very beautiful colors, circa 1960,

Provenance: Lions Club of Dauville

A rare artist on the market.

Germain Van der Steen, born Germain Vandersteen Mauduit Larive on July 7, 1897 in Versailles and died April 12, 1985 in Garches, was a French painter.

Germain Van der Steen went to study in England and earned a degree from Oxford.

Mobilized during World War I, he was gassed.

After the armistice, he became a color dealer in the Étoile district in Paris. Passionate about painting, he paints at night. He is self-taught, and his art is linked to naïve painting. Three periods can be identified in his artistic career: the non-figurative period, then the imaginary, multicolored vegetal phase with draperies, and finally the period of bestiaries, where he mainly depicts cats and birds. His colors are very vivid.

Germain Van der Steen exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1944.

- Public collections:

Vicq, International Museum of Naive Art: The Deluge, oil on canvas.

- Exhibitions:

France
Belgium
Switzerland
the Netherlands
Yugoslavia
the United States
Italy
Israel
Austria
Germany
Brazil
Galerie Louise in Paris in 1950
Hutter, Basel in 1951
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, exhibition “Demon and Wonders” in 2002: The Creation of the World after Darius Milhaud
Musée et centre d'art de Lapalisse, “Works of Germain Vandersteen,” until September 15, 2012.