Le hameau à Damiette, vers 1888
Huile sur toile, signée en bas à gauche
54 x 65 cm - 21 1/3 x 25 1/2 in.
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
PROVENANCE:
Collection privée, France
BIBLIOGRAPHIE:
G. Serret, D. Fabiani; Armand Guillaumin 1841-1927: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, Editions Mayer, 1971, ref. n°169
A landscape painter, Armand Guillaumin was particularly attached to the regions of Paris, Creuse, and Esterel. Born in 1841 in Paris in a working-class family from Moulins, he worked, at the age of 16, for his uncle at the Orléans railway company, while studying drawing. He later attended the Académie Suisse, where he met Cezanne and Pissarro, with whom he forged strong ties of friendship. He then met Vincent Van Gogh and his younger brother Théodorus, who brilliantly promoted his work.
Guillaumin also participated in the Salon des Refusés in 1863, and most Impressionist Exhibitions between 1874 and 1886. In 1891, he won a large sum of money and his independence in a lottery and travelled through the South of France, the Auvergne region, and Holland, before settling in Crozant, in the French region of Creuse in 1893.
Influenced by the masters of Impressionism, Guillaumin gradually developed a style of his own with a unique disposition for solid volumes and land motifs. After 1885, partly influenced by Signac, he used increasingly vivid, arbitrarily employed hues. An enthusiast of landscapes in the open air, he painted in energetic, large brushstrokes. From the 1890s, his painting became more subjective with his work comprising colors that became increasingly expressive, in an unusual approach that seemed to announce Fauvism.
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