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| Medium | Oil on canvas board |
| Size | 12.00" × 19.50" (30.5cm × 49.5cm) |
| Framed Size | 17.50" × 25.00" (44.5cm × 63.5cm) |
| Dated | c. 1920 |
| Condition | Very good condition |
| Provenance | The collection of the artist's family |
| About this Painting | This painting comes directly from the family of the artist — a provenance that places it as close to the source as it is possible to get. The handling is characteristic of Pinchon at his most assured. The paint is applied with confidence and immediacy — thick, broken strokes that describe the play of light on water and stone without labouring the detail. His palette here draws on the rich Norman greens and soft greys of the Rouen countryside, warmed by passages of gold and ochre that speak to the particular quality of northern French light — luminous even when subdued. There is nothing tentative about the way he works. Monet, who saw his paintings at an exhibition in Rouen in 1903, described him as possessing "a surprising touch in the service of a surprising eye" — and the touch is visible here in every mark. Pinchon (1886–1943) was born and spent his life in Rouen, at the heart of one of the great traditions in French landscape painting. He was exhibiting publicly by the age of fourteen and showing in Paris by nineteen. He went on to exhibit alongside Monet, Sisley, Renoir and Guillaumin, and co-founded the Société Normande de Peinture Moderne alongside Dufy, Braque, Matisse and Derain. He was wounded in the First World War, taken prisoner and escaped. After the war he rebuilt his career and continued to paint with undiminished energy until his death in 1943, aged fifty-six. The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen holds the most extensive public collection of his work. This painting, from his own family, is a rare opportunity. |
£16,950.00
GBP
