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22 - Armand GUILLAUMIN
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Armand GUILLAUMIN Woman and Child in a Landscape – 1890 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right ‘Guillaumin 90’ 82 x 65.5 cm Provenance: Auction, Paris, Palais Galliera, Ader Picard, 5 December 1968, lot 43 (115,000 francs) Auction, Paris, Yann Le Mouel, 14 February 2023, lot 89 Acquired at this auction by the current owner Louis Grandchamp des Raux Collection Exhibitions: Paris, Pavillon de la ville de Paris (Champs-Élysées), Salon des Indépendants, 6th exhibition, March–April 1890, no. 416, p. 22, (titled ‘Woman and Child in a Meadow’) Bibliography: *La Gazette Drouot*, no. 2, 13 January 2023, reproduced in colour on the cover and p. 6 This work will be included in the second volume of the Armand Guillaumin Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared by the Guillaumin Committee (Stéphanie Chardeau-Botteri, Dominique Fabiani, Jacques de la Béraudière). A certificate from the Armand Guillaumin Committee will be issued to the purchaser. Oil on canvas; signed and dated lower right; 32 1/4 x 25 3/4 in. A bold colourist of the first Impressionist generation, Armand Guillaumin produced landscapes in dazzling, vibrant colours. In 1890, the year this painting was created, Guillaumin took part in the Salon des Indépendants, founded in 1884 by Georges Seurat, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Paul Signac and Odilon Redon to provide artists with an exhibition space free from a selection jury. Of the four rooms in the Pavillon des Champs-Élysées reserved for artists rejected by the official Salon, one was dedicated to the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Alongside Seurat, Signac, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh, Guillaumin exhibited ten paintings – the maximum permitted – including this one. In this rare landscape in portrait format, the artist depicts a woman helping her young child take their first steps in the midst of a field of vibrant colours. They may well be his wife, Marie Joséphine Gareton, and their daughter Madeleine Julie, born in 1888. The undulating composition, which links the path, the tree branches and the moving clouds, conveys the harmonious vibration of nature. Working from life, Guillaumin seeks here to create a symphony of colour and emotion, where pure tones, applied in juxtaposed brushstrokes, give rise to a vibrant light that already foreshadows Fauvism. Guillaumin presents us with a scene of great tenderness, in which the child’s awakening merges with that of nature. In this luminous countryside, radiant nature sings a hymn to life, where colour becomes the true language of emotion. Until 1893, the year he settled in the Creuse, his work was often compared to that of Claude Monet (fig. 1), with whom he shared a taste for plein air painting, a luminous palette and rapid, hatched brushstrokes. Fig. 1: Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol, Madame Monet and her Son, or The Walk, 1875, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington Armand GUILLAUMIN 82 x 65.5 cm A bold colourist from the first generation of Impressionists, Armand Guillaumin painted landscapes in dazzling, vibrant colours. In 1890, the year this painting was created, Guillaumin took part in the Salon des Indépendants, founded in 1884 by Georges Seurat, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Paul Signac and Odilon Redon to provide artists with an exhibition space without an admissions jury. Of the four rooms in the Pavillon des Champs-Élysées reserved for artists rejected by the official Salon – the ‘Refusés’ – one was dedicated to the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Alongside Seurat, Signac, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh, Guillaumin exhibited ten paintings – the maximum number permitted – including this one. In this landscape, in a rare vertical format, the artist depicts a woman helping her young child take their first steps in the middle of a field of dazzling colours. This could depict his wife, Marie-Joséphine Gareton, and their daughter Madeleine Julie, born in 1888. The curves in the composition – linking the path, the tree branches and the moving clouds – convey the harmonious vibrancy of nature. Working from life, Guillaumin seeks here to create a colourful and emotional symphony, where pure tones, applied in juxtaposed brushstrokes, give rise to a vibrant light that already foreshadows Fauvism. Guillaumin presents us with a scene of great tenderness, in which the child’s awakening converges with that of nature. In this luminous countryside, radiant nature sings a hymn to life, where colour becomes the true language of emotion. Until 1893, the year he settled in the Creuse, his work was often compared to that of Claude Monet (ill. 1), with whom he shared a taste for plein air painting, a luminous palette and rapid, hatched brushstrokes. Fig. 1: Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol, Madame Monet and her Son, or The Walk, 1875, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington
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