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“Soleil couchant sur la mer – Agay”

( 1867 – 1952 )
Agay sits in a bay on the Esterel coast between Cannes and Saint-Raphaël, where the mountains run red with porphyry rock and drop directly into the sea. At sunset that colour intensifies to something almost unreal — deep orange and crimson in the rock, the same tones broken and scattered across the water below, the sky above moving through registers that a less confident painter would hesitate to put down. René Seyssaud did not hesitate. The paint in this canvas has the directness and physical conviction of a painter who has spent decades looking at Provençal light with absolute attention. The palette — those specific warm tones of the southern evening, the way the cooler blues of deepening sky sit against the warmth of the horizon, the red of the Esterel rock carrying through into the water below — is not invented. It is recorded from a precise moment by someone who understood exactly what colour can do when it is pushed to its expressive limit without losing its truth. Seyssaud (1867–1952) was born in Marseilles and trained in the Provençal tradition before finding his own entirely personal voice. The critic François Thiébault-Sisson wrote of him in 1901: "Seyssaud, this solitary, unsociable man from Provence, has made himself, a long way from Paris, into a master." His dealer was Ambroise Vollard. He exhibited with the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Tuileries, and alongside Louis Valtat is described by art historians as a precursor of Fauvism — pushing colour to its expressive limits a decade before the movement had a name. He lived and painted until the age of eighty-five.

Specifications

MediumOil on canvas
SignedSigned lower left and titled verso
Size20.00" × 29.00" (50.8cm × 73.7cm)
Framed Size28.00" × 37.00" (71.1cm × 94.0cm)
Dated 1896
ConditionVery good condition
ProvenanceThis work is described and illustrated in colour in the Catalogue Raisonne (p.166 no. 229) of Rene Seyssaud by Claude Jean Bonnici
£24,000.00
GBP

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    Rene Seyssaud

    René Seyssaud was born to Vauclusian parents and spent his childhood near Ventoux at Villes-sur-Auzon in an ancestral farm, Pézet house. From a very early age he showed an aptitude for drawing and painting. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseilles, and from 1885…

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