Oil on canvas, Guinguette au clair de lune by Iwill
Oil on canvas, Guinguette au clair de lune by Iwill
3.600,00 €
Iwill 1850-1923
is the pseudonym of Marie-Joseph Léon Clavel.
The son of an economist father, he began his life in the trade.
He enlisted as a soldier in the 1870 war.
Prisoner in Switzerland, he is struck by the beauty of the landscapes and decides, when he is free to devote himself to his true passion: painting.
Further information
| Dimensions | 58 × 74 cm |
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While working as a secretary at the National Assembly, he began to exhibit his paintings from 1895, under the name ofIwill, at the Salon and at the Société nationale des beaux-arts.
ofwhich he was one of the founders.
During his career, he won numerous medals at the various world exhibitions.When Iwill decided to devote himself entirely to painting, it was to pay tribute to nature. He devoted his entire life to landscapes, traveling tirelessly from Venice to Normandy but also the Pas-de-Calais and Flanders, the surroundings of Paris or even Brittany.
Iwill’spaintings are full of tenderness. These subjects are often rendered in the same colors he lets burst onto the canvas insubtle shades of the same color
He devoted his entire life to landscapes, travelling tirelessly from Venice to Normandy, but also to the Pas-de-Calais and Flanders, the outskirts of Paris and Brittany.
Iwill 's paintings are full of softness.
The artist’s palette is dominated by shades of purple, gray, and blue for the sky and ground, contrasting with the warm yellow and orange lights of the open-air café. The brushwork is fluid, sometimes blurred, creating a misty and poetic effect that evokes both the calm of the night and the quiet bustle of everyday life.
This painting is a tribute to the romantic and folksy atmosphere of open-air cafés, blending realism with poetic sensibility—a hallmark of Iwill’s work.
