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Le Pont Aux Anglais, Soleil Couchant
''Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant'' is an oil painting created in 1905 by the French artist Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886–1943). Associated with the new generation of l'École de RouenFrançois Lespinasse, ''Robert Antoine Pinchon'', Association Les amis de l'École de Rouen, 2007 Pinchon executed this work in a Post-Impressionist style with a subdued Fauve or Neo-Impressionist palette of golden yellows and incandescent blues. The dynamic image of the train in Pinchon's painting is an homage to the emerging industrialized world. The work was exhibited in April 1905 at the Galerie Legrip in Rouen (see photograph), and again at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen; inauguration 13 November 1909. In the collection of François Depeaux at the time, ''Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant'' was purchased by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen in 1909 where it currently forms part of the permanent collection. Description ''Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant'' is an oil painti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Antoine Pinchon
Robert Antoine Pinchon (, 1 July 1886 in Rouen – 9 January 1943 in Bois-Guillaume) was a French Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (''l'École de Rouen'') who was born and spent most of his life in France. He was consistent throughout his career in his dedication to painting landscapes ''en plein air'' (i.e., outdoors). From the age of nineteen (1905 to 1907) he worked in a Fauve style but never deviated into Cubism, and, unlike others, never found that Post-Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. Claude Monet referred to him as "a surprising touch in the service of a surprising eye". Among his important works are a series of paintings of the River Seine, mostly around Rouen, and landscapes depicting places in or near Upper Normandy. Early life Robert Antoine Pinchon was born into an artistic and literary environment. His father, Robert Pinchon, a librarian, journalist, playwright and drama critic, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
