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Henry Maurice D'Anty oil on canvas: village fair with figures, palette-knife impasto
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Henry d’Anty: Montmartre and the Palette Knife

Henry d’Anty (1910–1998), the École de Paris painter who worked in Picasso’s former Montmartre studio and built his villages and harbours in thick slabs of knife-applied colour; his Village Fair with Figures is at auction with Aurora & Athena.
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Marcel Cramoysan oil on canvas 'Le Tir forain': girl at a fairground shooting gallery
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Marcel Cramoysan: Painter of the École de Rouen

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.
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Jean Rambinintsoa 1963 oil on canvas: flower market under parasols, Antananarivo
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Jean Rambinintsoa and the Flower Market of Antananarivo

Jean Rambinintsoa (1899–1986), the leading painter of modern Madagascar: his Paris training, the Analakely flower market under white parasols, and the 1963 canvas offered at Aurora & Athena.
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Willem Van Hasselt oil on canvas: the pond in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
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Willem van Hasselt: a Dutch Painter of the Paris Parks

Willem van Hasselt (1882–1963), Rotterdam-born member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and painter of the Luxembourg and Tuileries gardens, and his Luxembourg pond offered at Aurora & Athena.
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Jules Cavaillès oil on board: the hill town of Cordes-sur-Ciel
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Jules Cavaillès and La Réalité poétique

Jules Cavaillès (1901–1977), founder of La Réalité poétique: from Carmaux to the Institut, the open windows and bouquets, the Tarn landscapes, and the view of Cordes-sur-Ciel at Aurora & Athena.
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Oil on canvas attributed to Pan Yuliang, 1944: carnations and roses in a blue-and-white Chinese vase
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Pan Yuliang: China’s First Modern Woman Painter, in Paris

Pan Yuliang (1895–1977), from Yangzhou to Montparnasse: her training, her flower still lifes and nudes between Chinese line and Parisian colour, and the 1944 canvas attributed to her at Aurora & Athena.
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Jan Zrzavý 1947 tempera 'Městečko': little town with a red church spire and coloured roofs, unframed view
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Jan Zrzavý: the Painter Who Gave Czech Art Its Dream

Jan Zrzavý (1890–1977), founder of Czech modern art: his highland little towns, Breton boats and luminous tempera technique, and the signed 1947 Městečko offered at Aurora & Athena.
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nang hien le
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Nang Hien Le: A Self-Taught Painter’s $17,570 Sotheby’s Sale

Nang Hien Le never set foot inside the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine — the Hanoi school that trained Le Pho and nearly every other name in Vietnamese modernism. He learned silk painting informally, from weekly visits to a working artist’s house. In 2018, one of his silk paintings sold for $17,570 at Sotheby’s Hong … Continued
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Roberto Crippa
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Roberto Crippa: Life, Spazialismo and an $852K Record

Roberto Crippa signed the third Spazialismo manifesto in 1950, working alongside Lucio Fontana in the movement that punctured, slashed and reshaped the canvas to escape flat painting altogether. His auction record stands at $851,886. Aurora & Athena currently holds Senza Titolo, a mixed-media work on paper from 1964. Brera and the Spazialismo Circle Crippa was … Continued
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Walasse Ting
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Walasse Ting: Life, Paintings and a $3.3M Auction Record

Walasse Ting’s Tickle Me sold for $3.3 million at Kingsley Art Auction in Taipei in 2013 — a record for a painter who arrived in Paris in 1952 with five American dollars and no visa. Aurora & Athena currently holds one of his watercolors, Resting Woman, from the height of his New York period. From … Continued
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ecole de paris painters
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École de Paris Painters: 2 Names Worth Discovering

Jules Pascin and Tsuguharu Foujita were both part of the École de Paris — one holds a $9.4M auction record. Their real biographies, market data, and the available original paintings in Aurora & Athena's own collection.
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