How I start Buying Venard Paintings.
I came across Claude Venard paintings in the mid 80s in New York City. There used to be a gallery on
Madison Avenue run by Frenchman Felix Vercel - Gallery Vercel. I did not fall in love with Venard
paintings when I first saw them. I fell in love with other impressionist paintings from the school of Paris,
They were really beautiful and captured my heart. It was a pure pleasure to watch those paintings
in beautiful palette. But those strong and odd images of Venard painting gave me such a strong impression
on me - that I could never forget them. They are very strong, heavy, very odd in forms and sometimes
very much offensive but those images stuck to my soul and I could not get rid of it. It took a while until
I bought my first Venard painting. It was street scene of Paris - and the imagery of that painting grew on me.
It was slowly filling up the space of my mind and heart. I had to buy another one - always a pair of painting
by the same artist - and specially artist like Venard - is good. They energize each other. Then it became
three in the collection and I bought the fourth painting, and so on. AF
