Lydia Corbett was born Sylvette David in Paris on 14th Nov 1934. Her father was an influential art dealer and painter, whose Champs Elysee Gallery, David & Garnier, exhibits the now famous Bernard Buffet. Her mother was an award-winning student at the Academie Julian, Paris.
Due to a highly unconventional childhood, Lydia has always been free from the normal constraints of learnt art. As a young child her life was spent between Provence and a small island off the Cote D'azure where her days passed in complete freedom, playing in the sea and admiring nature.
At the age of 16, Lydia and her brother were sent to Summerhill School in Suffolk.
She returned to France with her fiancé and in 1953 met Picasso in the small, southern town of Vallauris. It was a wonderful experience which changed her life. In 3 months, Picasso painted about 40 paintings of 'Sylvette', as she was then called.
Having moved to Paris, Lydia had her first child, Isabel, in 1963. Her father encouraged her to paint but it wasn't until she was 45 and living at Dartington Hall with 3 children, that she began to paint in earnest.
Each of the 28 watercolour and indian ink on paper paintings are all 40 x 50cm (image size), mounted, framed and glazed and are priced at £995 each, inclusive of delivery to any UK mainland address.
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Images of life 2008
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Christmas Rose Dance 2008
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Harvest Festival 2007
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Guardian Angel
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Roses still life with a fluteplayer
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Red sun and blue moon with Fuschias 2007
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Pomegranat love
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Looking inwards 2008
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Chapel in Camerat with les Santons 2007
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The red room with a view 2005
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Su'garet village with crocuses 2007
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Kimono Jo 2006
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Stephanie, Chloe and Laurence
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Three in the Irises
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Thinking of Provence
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Adam & Eve in the still life 2008
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After Xmas 2007
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Japanese lady with cat
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Mother mothers daughters
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Sylvette sailing 2008
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Lady in smoke 2008
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Mariam, blue vase
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Candlelight 2007
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The adolescent & his mother
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Montventoux still life
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Love in the crocuses
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Adam and Eve 2008
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Three lost in thoughts 2001
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These paintings are available from this website from 10th January 2009. A collection of Lydia Corbett's oil paintings will be exhibited on-line shortly.
Please call 01326 318452 (gallery hours) or 01736 786016 (evenings and weekends) to reserve the work of your choice.
The paintings are all 40 x 50cm, watercolour and indian ink on paper, mounted, framed and glazed and are priced at £995 each, inclusive of delivery to any UK mainland address.
Money back if not entirely satisfied (provided we are informed within 3 days of your painting being collected/delivered). Cheques and all major credit cards accepted. Colours may vary between the original paintings and the reproductions shown here.
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The Great Atlantic Galleries
48 Arwenack Street, FALMOUTH TR11 3JH
Tel 01326 318452
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