Guillaume Fouace's still lifes 2024 rating and value

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Rating and artist value Guillaume Romain Fouace

Guillaume Romain Fouace is a French painter who belongs to the Realism movement and mainly paints portraits and still lifes, the latter constituting the major part of his output. Today, his works are sold for between €500 and €30,490. In 2008, a still life by Fouace featuring a lobster on a sloping copper plate sold for €24,000. His price is stable. 

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Guillaume Romain Fouace's style and technique

Guillaume Romain Fouace draws his inspiration from artists of the 17th and 18th centuries. He pays tribute to the works of the great masters of the still life, such as the French Jean Siméon Chardin and the Nordic painter Peter Claesz, in an academic and realistic style. There is a strong stylistic kinship with the old paintings of the Northern schools.

The value of selling a Guillaume Fouace still life
Recently, the artist's stock has been on the rise. Several of his paintings have appeared on the auction market in a short space of time, attracting collectors of paintings from this century, and reinforcing their attraction to the artist's still lifes.

The life of Guillaume Romain Fouace

Born in Jonville, Réville, Guillaume Romain Fouace grew up in the countryside, where he developed a taste for drawing. Inspired by boats and animals, he received his first watercolor lessons from young artists. Spotted by the curator of the Cherbourg museum, he painted his own portrait and won a scholarship to study in Paris. In 1867, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, studying with Adolphe Yvon.

Fouace began his career with portraits, but soon specialized in still lifes. Although this genre was still underestimated in the 1850s, he exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1870, making a name for himself first as a portraitist, then for his still lifes from 1873.

During his twenty-four-year career, he took part in twenty Parisian Salons and also exhibited abroad, notably in Munich from 1883, a practice he continued until his death.

Guillaume Romain Fouace's imprint on his era  

Since the French Revolution, few painters had taken an interest in the still-life genre, which was considered to be fairly minor. Throughout his career, Guillaume Fouace sought to establish himself in a wide variety of genres, including landscapes, portraits and genre scenes. Yet it was always for his still lifes that he was recognized.

Recognizing the artist's signature

Guillaume Romain Fouace signs his works at the bottom of his canvases with his name and the initial of his first name in a relatively fluid, rounded script.

Knowing the value of a work

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