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| Medium | Oil on panel |
| Signed | Signed lower right |
| Size | 20.00" × 40.00" (50.8cm × 101.6cm) |
| Framed Size | 26.00" × 46.00" (66.0cm × 116.8cm) |
| Dated | 1916 |
| Condition | Very good condition |
| Provenance | Galerie Marcel Flavian - Paris (labels verso) c. 1980 This work is accompanied by a photo certificate from Mme. Nicole Tamburini and will be included in the forthcoming raisonne of the work of Achille Lauge under preparation by Mme. Tamburini under certificate reference number 114 |
| About this Painting | The Pont Saint-Michel in Toulouse — the old stone bridge crossing the Garonne in the heart of the city where Laugé first came to study as a young man — is a subject of deep personal significance as much as painterly interest. Achille Laugé (1861–1944) was born in the Aude, spent his formative years in Toulouse, and returned to the south permanently after seven years in Paris. The Garonne, the light of the Languedoc, the particular warmth of southern French stone — these were his native materials, and he spent a lifetime learning to render them with complete precision. By 1916 Laugé had moved well beyond the meticulous Divisionist dots of his early career and the crosshatching of his middle period into something freer and more physically immediate — broader strokes, thicker paint, a handling that has the directness of traditional Impressionism but informed by two decades of thinking carefully about how colour actually works on a canvas. The light of the Garonne in this painting is built from strokes placed with confidence rather than calculation, each one carrying its full weight of colour without hesitation. The result is a work of remarkable warmth and vitality — the south rendered not as scientific experiment but as felt experience. His friends and contemporaries included Aristide Maillol, with whom he shared a Paris studio, and Antoine Bourdelle. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1894 alongside Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vuillard. In 1968 he was included in the landmark exhibition of Neo-Impressionism at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His work is held in the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. |
£44,000.00
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