Reserved - Robert Colot, Industrial Landscape With River Barges

Reserved - Robert Colot, Industrial Landscape With River BargesA beautiful impressionistic river scene by Belgian painter, Robert Colot (1927 1993). Two barges are meandering their way along a river before a colourful industrial cityscape. While several cranes punctuate the last of the evenings light. Robert Colot was known for his depictions of working class figures and urban landscapes. He trained in Brussels and was a quiet man who preferred to work alone. The painting is signed in the lower right and housed

Housed in a good later frame with a distressed look

Victor Favier was born in Versailles and trained under Horace Vernet (1789-1863)

Perhaps ‘Willenuor’ or similar

Provenance Berlin

What do you see in this particular piece

cabinet and artworks

he worked as an illustrator and cartoonist at Danish newspaper ‘Dags Pressen’

359 achieved for ‘Tunis’ (46cm x 36cm) in 2007

which is reminiscent of the post-impressionists

The backgammon pieces are observed very well and you can even read the numbers on each dice

This was a fashion statement during the late-19th-century and clearly

so it’s interesting to consider how the two were introduced