"White Roses" is an original oil painting on canvas signed by the artist. A Certificate of Authenticity is included.

Luiz Carlos Coelho, aka C. Lamont, was born in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 16th, 1935. He received early training in his art from his father who was also a painter. Later he took formal instruction at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes of the University of Brazil. Two of his teachers, themselves well- known artists, were Zaluar and Goeldi. For a time he was a teacher of art at the Sousa Leao Institute in Rio de Janeiro.
Luiz Carlos Coelho will be remembered as a significant talent. He enjoyed doing oversized abstract sculptures in his studio for himself. As an oil painter, Luiz felt strongly about representing various styles of painting with different ‘Pen’ names. He always felt that within each artist lived many artists, and expressed his art work in that manner, thusly assigning nom de plume to each. The most notable of these are the names : C. Pierre Latour and C. Lamont (whose name he trademarked and registered). The paintings by ‘Latour’ captured his life time travels, including Brazil, Portugal, Paris, Amsterdam as well as many other ‘experiences’ of his travels over his years, and became Flower Markets and City Scenes of no particular location, except that location fabricated in his own mind. The floral ‘Roses’ trademarked by ‘Lamont’ capture the light and expose the beauty of the ‘flower within the flower’. Both, best selling paintings,for years and years.

Luiz Carlos Coelho died on February 2nd, 2006.