Claude Langevin (Canadian, b.1942)
‘Jardinage’ (Gardening)
oil on canvas
(Actual): 24 ¼” high x 20 ¼” wide
(Framed): 31 ¾” high x 28” wide
Description: A fine original Quebec School Claude Langevin (Canadian, b.1942) oil on canvas titled ‘Jardinage’ (Gardening).
Depicted is a pot of red and white geraniums basking in the full sun on a windowsill. The sunlight casts a shadow of the flowers onto the stone frame and counterpoint to this, in the foreground, is an overturned and broken clay pot half immersed in potters soil. A green landscape can be seen out the window with a fence dividing the nearby field in two and leading towards an old outbuilding.
Artist Biography: Claude Langevin (Canada, b. 1942). IAF Born in Montreal, Quebec, Langevin studied medicine at the University of Montreal and is self-taught in painting. He was strongly influenced by the work of Tom Thomson and Clarence Gagnon. Working in oil and acrylic, he paints still life, floral studies, village scenes and the Quebec rural landscape, especially the lakes and forests of the Laurentians and Charlevoix in winter. His colours are pure and bright. Langevin has also travelled and painted in the Canadian Arctic.
