INVESTMENT ART !!!

WOW !!! CHARLES THEODORE VILLET (1896 - 1963) - BEAUTIFUL UNFRAMED WATERCOLOR PAINTING No 69- SIGNED AND DATED 1955

AUTHENTICATED BY CYNTHIA VILLET

PAINTING IS  385 X 280mm

Dr Charles Theodore de Mornet Villet born in Cape Town in 1896. He qualified as a medical doctor in Cape Town and specialised in Ireland and practiced in Wynberg for many years, earning a reputation as a surgeon of exceptional skill. After he retired he settled in Worcester and continued with his hobbies of collecting succulents and painting. He painted for many years in watercolour capturing many unrepeatable Cape Town scenes and in oils on a variety of surfaces mostly board and canvas covered board often painted back and front.. He seldom signed his work like has forebear Jean Villet. He was an extremely competent artist experimenting with and following the impressionist style. He and his wife were also very involved in collecting succulents discovering many new species. He was generally known as Mornet and had two children, a son who became a photographer and worked mainly abroad and a daughter Cynthia who is also a talented artist. She currently lives in Kenilworth in Cape Town. Dr Villet died in Barbados in 1963 whist visiting his daughter who was living there at the time. Much of his work remains unsigned and is either stamped on the reverse with a studio rubber stamp authenticated by his daughter reading Cynthia Villet for C T Villet.

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