Lot description
ARTIST: Raymond Klee (English, French, 1925 - 2013) TITLE: Seascape MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Some staining. Some small scratches/paint losses. No visible inpaint under UV light. Some damages to frame. ART SIZE: 15 x 22 inches / 38 x 55 cm FRAME SIZE: 19 x 26 inches / 48 x 66 cm SIGNATURE: lower right LOCATION: This lot is located at our Mamaroneck, NY office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 153435 US SHIPPING: $95 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Raymond Klee was born in South Wales in 1925. Raymond was a member of the Romilly School choir as a young boy and worked in a local butchers shop, to help support the family after his mother died giving birth to his brother. Klee served at sea, throughout WW2 in the Merchant Navy as gunner crew, right up until the late forties. Following his career in the Navy, he studied drawing at Birmingham Art College, beginning in watercolours, where he then graduated to oils. He lived in the Montmatre artists' quarter in Paris, and also southern France. During the late 1950s and 1960s he was the only British painter to be elected a member of the Syndicate of Montmarte art group, whose members have included Picasso and Braque. He was later based in Brighton.