ARTIST: Louis P Fabien (United States, Belgium, France, 1924-???) NAME: Nude YEAR: 1971 MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 14 x 10 inches / 35 x 25 cm FRAME SIZE: 23 x 20 inches / 58 x 50 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: Wally Findlay Galleried, San Francisco CA (has original gallery label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117245 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Louis Fabien was born January 18, 1924 in L'Isle-Jourdain in the French department of Vienne. Fabien is a self-taught figurative painter who uses a modern form of pointillism in his colorful paintings. Fabien has exhibited artwork in Paris salon shows and has had one-man shows in France, the United States, Japan, England and Germany. In the early 1950s he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and in 1953 at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, of which he served as president in 1964 and in 1965. In 1957 he was accorded the Prix Greenshields. Fabien's paintings are in the collections of the French State, the City of Paris, and the Petit Palais of Geneva.