Howard Behrens (1933-2014) American, Original Oil on Canvas. Titled "Near St. Tropez" on label on back with attribution. Signed on bottom left. Signed again on back by Judith Behrens, his widow and manager of all his works and reproductions. Comes with certificate of authenticity. 

Overall Size: 43 x 34 in. 

Sight Size: 34 x 25 1/2 in. 

Frame Thickness: 2 1/4 in. 

Howard Chesner Behrens was born on August 20th, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up near Washington, D.C. He began drawing at age seventeen after being confined to bed following a sledding accident. His formal education in art was at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he earned a bachelors and master’s degree in painting and sculpture. Behrens was hired by the United States Government Printing Office, where his father was employed as a printer, and worked there for the next seventeen years. In his retirement he focused again on painting, becoming a very popular artist as his works were sold in fine art galleries, at auctions, on cruise ships, and in several major retail and wholesale outlets. He developed a style of using a palette knife to paint on canvas, sometimes making incredibly thick and heavy works that used post-Impressionist techniques to combine his interests in travel, photography, and color theory. After Behrens’ second marriage he resided in Potomac, Maryland, where he died on April 14th, 2014 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.