{"title":"1930s-1950s Behar's pastels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWelcome to the wonderful world of this French artist active between the 1930s and 1950s. His name was Marco Behar 1898-1959 and he was a French actor and painter, and long-time member of the Comédie Française theatre company. He travelled across Europe painting with vibrant pastel colors on wrapping\/kraft paper, cities, landscapes and the classic Parisian bistro he used to spend time at. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cafe-interior-french-school-pastel","title":"Café Interior — French School","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn evocative oil-pastel rendering of a late-night café interior, capturing the warm conviviality of figures gathered around lamplit tables in saturated colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrance, circa 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCafé scenes were a defining motif of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art, threading through the work of Manet, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. In pastel the subject took on particular intimacy, the chalky medium lending itself to the soft glow of gaslight and the smoky atmosphere of the modern Parisian interior. Unsigned original works of this kind survive as direct, painterly records of bohemian sociability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil pastel on paper. Sheet size approximately 64× 81cm. Good condition with light handling marks consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51859379552542,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/P4190534_1_thumb_1049de53-c6fd-4463-9968-5121de495e56.jpg?v=1779016005"},{"product_id":"christmas-tree-interior-french-school-pastel","title":"Christmas Tree Interior — French School","description":"\u003cp\u003eA festive oil-pastel interior glowing with the warmth of a Christmas gathering, rendered in luminous, freely-worked colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrance, circa 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDomestic festive scenes flourished in French popular and fine art of the early twentieth century as middle-class ritual and bourgeois interiority became valid subjects in their own right. The intimisme of Vuillard and Bonnard found echoes in countless unsigned pastels of the period, where the medium's velvety surface could conjure candlelight, tinsel and pine in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil pastel on paper. Sheet size approximately 65× 81cm (portrait). Good condition with minor edge wear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51859379585310,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/P4190535_1_thumb_2065ca04-a2b5-408c-bdba-3b5728fd89a8.jpg?v=1779016010"},{"product_id":"cafe-scene-french-school-pastel","title":"Café Scene — French School","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vibrant oil-pastel rendering of a bustling café, marrying bold colour and confident draughtsmanship to capture the social texture of Parisian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrance, circa 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe café was central to French modernity — meeting place of artists, writers and flâneurs — and it remained a touchstone subject well after the Impressionist generation. Unsigned pastels such as this carry the legacy of Toulouse-Lautrec's interiors into the new century, prizing immediacy of gesture and saturated hue over academic finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil pastel on paper. Sheet size approximately 66× 81cm. Good condition with light surface marks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51859379618078,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/P4190536_1_thumb_c77d5fc9-654c-4fb6-89ef-48d027634efa.jpg?v=1779016014"},{"product_id":"garden-path-with-gate-french-school-pastel","title":"Garden Path with Gate — French School","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sun-dappled oil-pastel landscape, capturing the lush tranquillity of a garden path opening through a wrought-iron gate in vivid colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrance, circa 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cultivated garden — bourgeois, walled, in flower — was a favoured subject of French painters working in the wake of Monet's Giverny and Bonnard's Le Cannet. Worked directly in pastel, the medium's grainy bloom captured the fall of summer light on foliage with a freshness rarely achieved in oil, while the gate motif gestured to the threshold between domestic order and the wider countryside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil pastel on paper. Sheet size approximately 60 × 72 cm. Very Good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51859379650846,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/P4190537_1_thumb_ecae9913-4c4d-43d6-bcfb-fa0622220fb0.jpg?v=1779016020"},{"product_id":"park-landscape-with-swans-and-boat-french-school-pastel","title":"Park with Swans and Moored Boat — French School","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn atmospheric oil-pastel park landscape, a serene moment on a sun-dappled lake where swans glide past a moored skiff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrance, circa 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranquil park and waterway scenes were a beloved subject in early twentieth-century French art, drawing on the Impressionist legacy of plein-air observation and the long tradition of the \u003cem\u003eparc à l'anglaise\u003c\/em\u003e. Pastel suited the play of light on water particularly well, its broken strokes allowing the artist to fix the shimmer of reflections without losing painterly freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil pastel on paper. Sheet size approximately 60 × 72 cm. Very Good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51859379683614,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/P4190538_1_thumb_798974da-f4c9-4b82-983d-cd3f2af9b507.jpg?v=1779016024"},{"product_id":"tree-lined-road-french-school-pastel","title":"Tree-lined Road — French School","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vibrant oil-pastel landscape capturing a sun-dappled road winding between lush avenues of trees in late summer light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrance, circa 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tree-lined \u003cem\u003eallée\u003c\/em\u003e — whether park promenade or country road — was a recurring motif in French landscape painting from Corot onward, prized for the rhythm it gave to compositional perspective and the dramatic play of dappled light on the ground. In pastel the subject became almost tactile, each stroke registering as a separate flicker of leaf and shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil pastel on paper. Sheet size approximately 64 × 80 cm. Good condition with light handling marks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51859379716382,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/P4190539_1_thumb_1dcec075-7ec8-4bc2-b734-49a54eb6a702.jpg?v=1779016029"},{"product_id":"flowerbeds-at-the-gardeners-house-french-school-pastel","title":"Flowerbeds at the Gardener's House — French School","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vibrant oil-pastel depiction of a sun-drenched garden path bordered by flowering beds, leading to the gardener's cottage in midsummer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrance, circa 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe kitchen and cutting garden of the country house was a touchstone subject of French Post-Impressionist circles, taken up by Pierre Bonnard, Henri Lebasque and the wider Nabi orbit. Worked in pastel, the densely planted bed offered an ideal pretext for vibrating, near-abstract passages of colour, while the modest gardener's cottage anchored the composition in the rural, domestic scale that defined the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil pastel on paper. Sheet size approximately 72 × 59 cm (portrait). Excellent condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51859379749150,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/P4190540_1_thumb_293e7de2-292b-4fa6-a6b8-edbb21c3828b.jpg?v=1779016034"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/collections\/P4190537_1_thumb_ecae9913-4c4d-43d6-bcfb-fa0622220fb0.jpg?v=1779255134","url":"https:\/\/phoenixnest.com.au\/collections\/1930s-1950s-marco-behar.oembed","provider":"Phoenix Nest","version":"1.0","type":"link"}