IGNASI VIDAL (1904-1988) Concert Juvénile au Café de Flore

signed ‘Ignasi Vidal’ (lower right); signed and titled in pencil (on the reverse) oil on canvas 56 x 47 cm PROVENANCE: Private collection, South of France Ignasi Vidal i Molné was a Spanish painter and illustrator. Born in Barcelona, he was the son of the writer Cosme Vidal i Rosich, who was known by the pseudonym ‘Josep Aladers’. Vidal immigrated to Monaco in 1939 due to the Spanish Civil War. He was vice-president of the Monaco branch of the UNESCO Committee on Visual Arts. Vidal illustrated works by Baudelaire, Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and many others.