Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower right
Dated: 1920
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 20.00" x 28.00" (50.8cm x 71.1cm)
Framed Size: 28.00" x 36.00" (71.1cm x 91.4cm)
Provenance:
Richard Green - London (stock number RH367) - labels verso c.2000
Galerie Tuffier - Les Andeleys - labels verso c.1990
Galerie Andre Watteau - Paris 1969 (labels verso) c. 1980
Arthur Tooth & Sons - London (stock number AQ8961) - labels verso c. 1920
1909
Oil on panel
£3,300.00
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The Artists Garden
by Henri Duhem
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
£23,000.00
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Provencher’s Mill – Moret-Sur-Loing
by Pierre Eugene Montezin
1947
Oil on canvas
£5,850.00
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La Plage a Soorts-Hossegor
by Maurice Brianchon
1881
Oil on canvas
£79,500.00
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Le peintre en plein air
by Charles Theophile Angrand
1940
Oil on canvas
£6,950.00
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Route a Mougins
by Jules Cavailles
c. 1880
Oil on canvas
£6,200.00
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Fishing on a stream by the coast – Normandy
by Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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The Great War – Soldier & horse on a road
by Andre Devambez
1937
Oil on original canvas
£9,950.00
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The Old Farmyard – Sørup
by Peder Mork Monsted
1903
Oil on canvas
£22,500.00
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Pont D’Austerlitz
by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tarkhoff
1909
Oil on panel
£3,750.00
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Figures in a village
by Henri Duhem
1910
Oil on canvas
£21,500.00
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La Moisson a Thomery
by Pierre Eugene Montezin
c. 1910
Oil on board
£6,450.00
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Port d’Honfleur
by Henri Lienard De Saint Delis
The son of a joiner, Narcisse Guilbert overcame considerable personal difficulties to enrol, aged 17, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rouen, as a pupil of Zacharie. He won the Rouen academy's Prix Pellecat in 1910, and the resulting bursary enabled him to travel and discover the landscapes of the Breton coast. In 1907, he was a founder-exhibitor with the Société des Artistes Rouennais; he held his first solo show in Rouen in 1908. He exhibited in Paris only once during his lifetime, in 1920. A retrospective of his work was organised by André Watteau in 1969. Guilbert's work has featured in two themed exhibitions on Impressionism: The Rouen School: Seven Impressionist Painters, at the Château d'Hauterives, 1992; and Around Impressionism: Nineteen Painters from the School of Normandy ( Autour de l'Impressionnisme: dix-neuf peintres de l'École Normande), at the Maison des Arts in Antony, in 2003.
Guilbert was a member of a group of Rouen painters, led by Albert Lebourg and Pierre Dumont, who were strongly influenced by the work of the Impressionists. The group's founder, Delattre, established an Académie Libre where Guilbert and his friends studied and worked. Guilbert painted the coastal landscapes around Fécamp and Varengeville. In 1930, his most prolific year, he painted a large number of landscapes around Etretat. His painting of the Seine at Croisset is notable for its predominantly blue tonalities and dusky atmosphere. Broad brush-strokes in the foreground contrast with the more classical treatment of the clouds, amplifying the movement of light across the surface of the water. Guilbert's paintings often play on contrasts of handling in this way, giving his waterscapes a sense of drama. He was a noted painter in the Seine-Maritime region, where a number of streets have been named after him (in Le Mesnil-Esnard, Pavilly, Pissy-Poville).
Bibliography
Dubosc, Georges: L'École de Rouen, ses peintres et ses ferronniers, Lecerf fils, Rouen, 1914.
Narcisse Guilbert, 1878-1942, exhibition catalogue, Gal. André Watteau, Paris, 1969.
L'École de Rouen, BDS, Rouen, 1972.
École normande, École de Rouen 1870-1930, exhibition catalogue, Centre culturel du Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp, 1989.
Lespinasse, François: L'École de Rouen, Lecerf, Rouen, 1995.
L'École de Rouen, de l'impressionnisme à Marcel Duchamp 1878-1914, exhibition catalogue, musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, 1996.
Autour de l'Impressionnisme: dix-neuf peintres de l'école normande, exhibition catalogue, La Maison des Arts, Antony, 2003.