SOLD
Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower right
Dated: c. 1900
Condition: Unlined original condition
Size: 20.00" x 26.00" (50.8cm x 66.0cm)
Provenance: Private french collection
Further information: This work dates to around 1900 and illustrates the beginning of Lepine's career utilising the newly discovered pointillist technique.
c. 1920
Oil on panel
£9,250.00
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Punta Rassa – Sailing boat off the coast
by Richard Hayley Lever
c. 1885
Oil on panel
£5,750.00
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Cockle pickers on the beach at sunset
by Marie Francois Firmin-Girard
1880
Oil on panel
£19,950.00
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Honfleur -l’embarquement des boeufs pour l’Angleterre
by Jean-Francois Raffaelli
Joseph Louis François Lépine was a pupil of Louis Cabié in Bordeaux and then attended the Académie Julian in Paris. He began using the pointillist technique in 1900, and his paintings became increasingly luminous. He was interested in light effects, changing with the time of day and the season, on the stonework of the cathedrals of Rouen and Amiens. He exhibited at the Salon de Paris from 1897, and later at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, of which he became a member in 1901. A retrospective of his work was held in Mérignac in 1985.