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Signed ‘Cramoysan’ (lower right); titled and signed ‘Le Balcon Fleuri / Cramoysan’ (on the reverse); stretcher stamped ‘L’Atelier des Arts’ with the 10F format.
Sizes:
Frame: 69 × 60 cm | 27.2 × 23.6 in
Artwork: 55 × 46 cm | 21.7 × 18.1 in
Pink peonies, orange lilies and sprays of white blossom fill a terracotta jug on a balcony table; through the open window, past the wrought-iron railing, lie the blue bay and a green headland under summer cloud. A striped curtain frames the view.
The flowering balcony above the sea is a subject Marcel Cramoysan (1915–2007) painted on the Norman and Mediterranean coasts alike, combining the two things he loved most — flowers and the light over water. The canvas carries the stamp of the Paris colourman L’Atelier des Arts and is titled and signed by the artist on the reverse.
Signed ‘Cramoysan’ at the lower right.
Very good condition: the paint layer fresh and intact, with its full original impasto and no retouching; a single fleck of surface dirt in the sky; the canvas taut and unlined on its original keyed stretcher, with the Rouen colourman’s stamp and the artist’s title inscription on the reverse; light rubbing to the frame. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report.
Packed as size M (up to 80 × 60 cm) · 69 × 60 cm framed
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Bidding on this site, the buyer’s premium is 25%, Spanish IVA included. There is no VAT on the hammer price and no card fee.
| Starting price | Low estimate | High estimate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hammer price | €200 | €300 | €400 |
| Buyer’s premium 25% (IVA included) | €50 | €75 | €100 |
| Total on auroraathena.com | €250 | €375 | €500 |
| Total through a bidding platform (30%) | €260 | €390 | €520 |
Through LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Drouot or Bidspirit the premium is 30%: the same hammer of €400 costs €520 there against €500 here. Shipping and insurance are quoted separately; the estimator below gives the figure for your country. Buyers outside the EU pay no Spanish tax on the lot; the destination’s import rules apply (United States: original paintings and drawings enter duty-free; United Kingdom: 5% import VAT on art). Card payments are accepted up to €10,000; larger amounts by bank transfer.
The estimate of €300–€400 is our opinion of the range this work should reach; the starting price of €200 is the lowest bid we accept. We have not published comparable results for this lot; ask us before the sale and we will send the results we based the estimate on.
Bidding on this site, the buyer’s premium is 25%, Spanish IVA included, and there is no VAT on the hammer price and no card fee: at the starting price of €200 the total is €250; at the low estimate of €300 the total is €375; at the high estimate of €400 the total is €500.
Through LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Drouot or Bidspirit the premium is 30%, so the same hammer of €400 costs €520 there. Shipping and insurance are quoted separately; the estimator on this page gives the figure for your country. Buyers outside the EU pay no Spanish tax on the lot; the destination’s import rules apply (United States: original paintings and drawings enter duty-free; United Kingdom: 5% import VAT on art). Card payments are accepted up to €10,000; larger amounts by bank transfer.
Yes. This lot is catalogued under the artist’s name without qualification, so it carries our Five-Year Authenticity Guarantee under Section 4 of the Conditions of Sale: if the authorship proves materially incorrect, you may return the work within five years for a refund of the purchase price. The guarantee concerns authorship; provenance, dating, condition and value are described to the best of our knowledge and are not guaranteed.
A condition report with ultraviolet photographs is prepared on request, normally within two working days; the condition summary on this page is examined in-house and is not a conservator’s report. Further photographs of any detail, the reverse or the frame are sent on request. The work can be examined in our Barcelona showroom by appointment before the sale, and you are welcome to send your own conservator or specialist.
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Marcel Cramoysan was born in Étretat on 1 January 1915 and became a pupil of Robert Antoine Pinchon, the Post-Impressionist master of the École de Rouen, whose sense of light and colour he carried into the second half of the century. Painter and lithographer, he was a figurative artist through and through, and landscape — Norman first of all, but also Breton, Provençal, Corsican, Spanish and Italian — is the heart of his work.
He also painted still lifes and flower pieces, circus and fairground scenes and rare portraits, with a warm palette and a brush that is loose without ever losing the drawing.
Cramoysan decorated the school of Étretat with canvases of La Fontaine’s fables and Perrault’s tales; at its opening in 1957 the school was hailed as ‘the most beautiful in France’. He exhibited for decades in Rouen, Paris and Normandy and his work is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen and other Norman collections.
He died at Bois-Guillaume, near Rouen, on 26 April 2007. Since 2011 the Espace Cramoysan in Étretat has kept his memory in his native town.
Marcel Cramoysan (1915–2007), pupil of Robert Antoine Pinchon and a leading figure of the later École de Rouen: his Norman light, his fairground and flower pictures, and the two canvases offered at Aurora & Athena.
Highlights of the Aurora & Athena autumn sale on 17 October 2026: Bridget Tichenor, Nicholas Roerich, Konstantin Korovin, Gerard Sekoto, Jan Zrzavý, Pan Yuliang, a Miró lithograph and the painters of the École de Paris.
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