A montage of some of the artist’s work of Cote D’Azure, France.
Pierre Bittar was born in France in the year 1934. His father was a musician. His mother came from a ruling family called the House of Savoy that ruled Italy for nearly a century. Pierre Bittar is known for painting landscapes both of the United States and Europe. I enjoy his use of flowers in his landscapes.
Bittar wanted to be an artist from a very young age, five years old! His parents encouraged his love and pursuit of art as a career. From the age of six until the age of eighteen Bittar visited as many museums and saw and studied paintings by masters and his two favorite were Rembrandt and Monet were his two favorite artists.
Composition wise his art reminds me of Bob Pejman. Pejman is known for painting awesome harbor scenes. Here is a great example of Bob Pejman’s style of art.
In 1953 the artist’s dad passes away. He CANNOT WORK and quits his studies. After a short break he finds some evening painting classes to attend at the Academie Leonardo Da Vinci. In order to pay the bills Bittar takes a job with NCR, a processing company.
1956 he finished his studies and begins to make wonderful portraits of friends and family as landscapes.
1979 wins a Gold Medal Award at the Salon des Artiste Francais, Grand Palais.
In 1980 he quit the data processing company and became a full time painter.
In 1986 a book was made of the artists works.
Since 1992 has ran his own gallery located in Harbor Springs, Michigan.
A link for the the artist’s own website: http://www.pierrebittar.com/about-bittar.html#biography
With his fantastic Impressionistic style the artist reminds me of master California Impressionist painter Granville Redmond. Redmond was born a few years before the great San Francisco earthquake of 1904. Whilst still a child the earthquake caused him to go deaf. He went on to become one of the best California Impressionists and even appeared on film with the great silent film moviestar Charlie Chaplin.
Below is a wonderful example of Redmond’s Impressionistic style.
In this clip we see Granville Redmond appear on screen with Charlie Chaplin.
In this clip a short interview with Pierre Bittar.
Price range information: Bittar works in oils for the most part with prices ranging from $1,000 to $10,000.
Bittar does a wonderful job at painting garden scenes also. Mixing great crimsons, mauves, and purples in these works the artist shoes off his color and design skills.
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