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René SeyssaudFrench Fauvist Oil on Canvas Landscape to the Water View from Seyssaud's Atelier
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Early 20th Century Fauvist oil on canvas of a landscape view to the water by René Seyssaud. The painting is signed bottom left. There is a title, 'Etang par Mistral', and exhibition number to the top of the back stretcher. Presented in a fine custom gold Monteparnasse frame.
Provenance: From the family of the artist.
A truly wonderful painting full of colour and vivacity, Seyssaud at his best, where his influence on the Fauvists can be clearly seen. This is a view from his cottage atelier near Cassis in the South of France to the Etang de Berre. . He has created a beautiful view of a magical day in the South of France where the iconic Mistral wind has given a wonderful freshness to everything. In the centre ground a small terracotta roofed building catches our attention, The landscape is created of yellows, greens, blues and mauves. The Azure blue of the water with the white tips of the waves whipped up by the wind. Seyssaud has shown a mastery of technique, the paint thick on the canvas in an impasto technique to give life and movement to the plants and foliage. Bright vivid colours that just sing from the canvas and have an inner light that give the painting a jewel like quality. Seyssaud favoured a medium, distemper (détrempe), which involved a mixture of painting, water and glue kept liquid in a bain marie. This technique allowed him to achieve a fluid touch and luminous colours, but required him to work very quickly and on a small-ish scale.
His vivid, stylised compositions frequently observe their subjects from above, place the horizon high with just a narrow strip of sky and employ strong diagonals and complex perspectives influenced by Japanese art.
Seyssaud's seascapes are rarer: each year he would head to the coast, to Cassis or to his cottage at Saint Chamas on the Etang de Berre in Southern Provence, to escape the cold winters of the Vaucluse, where he also had a base in Villes sur Auzon, in the foothills of Mont Ventoux.
René Seyssaud (1867-1952) was a Provençal painter, precursor of Fauvism, member of the New School of Avignon.
Although he was the child of a Vaucluse family, he was born on 15 June 1867 in Marseille, where his father was a lawyer. The latter enrolled him at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. After the death of his father he joined his grandparents in Avignon who enrolled him there to continue his artistic studies with Pierre Grivolas as his teacher.
He stands out for his powerful temperament and bold palette of bright colours, which makes him a precursor of Fauvism. His first major exhibition took place in 1892 at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. He then participated at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Tuileries. His marriage in 1899 gave him the opportunity to settle in Villes-sur-Auzon, where he chose Mont Ventoux and the Gorges de la Nesque as pictorial themes. But suffering from tuberculosis, his doctors advised him to move closer to the sea and he moved in 1904 to Saint-Chamas where his workshop overlooked the Etang de Berre.
However, he often returned to the foot of Mount Ventoux and in the mid-1930s, he even set up a studio in Aurel.
At the urging of his friends Chabaud and Serra, he was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour and died in Saint-Chamas on 24 September 1952. His features are preserved for us by the portrait painted by Pierre Ambrogiani and kept by the Paul-Lafran Municipal Museum in Saint-Chamas.
Seyssaud's paintings are held in important private and national collections including:
Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris :
Luzerne, 1925-1930, huile sur toile, 38,5 × 46 cm
Les Yeuses, 1915-1918, huile sur toile, 96 × 130 cm
Musée d'Orsay :
Les Rochers gris, vers 1920, huile sur toile, 100 × 81,3 cm
Les Oliviers, 1898, huile sur toile, 101 × 81 cm
Toulon, Musée d'Art : Paysans au travail, non daté, huile sur toile, 81 × 60 cm
Saint-Tropez, Musée de l'Annonciade : Bois de pins au crépuscule, huile sur toile, 41 × 61 cm
Albi, musée Toulouse-Lautrec : Une Maternité, huile sur toile
Avignon, musée Calvet : La Rivière en automne, vers 1910, huile sur toile, 92 × 73 cm
Berre-l'Étang, hotel de ville : Saint-Chamas, 1909, huile sur toile, 200 × 340 cm
Dijon, musée des Beaux-Arts :
Portrait d'enfant, 1890, huile sur toile, 45 × 36 cm
Raisins et figues, huile sur toile, 47 × 67 cm
Granville, Musée d'Art moderne Richard-Anacréon : Village provençal, huile sur toile, 66 × 100 cm
musée Cantini, Marseille :
Coup de Mistral sur l'étang de Berre, huile sur toile, 46 × 54 cm
Vallon de la Touloubre, 12 × 18 cm
musée des Beaux-Arts :
Chênes au couchant, huile sur toile, 74 × 93 cm
Mer de mistral à la Garonne, 1901, huile sur carton, 13 × 19 cm
Saint Chamas, les vieux toits, huile sur toile, 48 × 65 cm
Montpellier, musée Fabre : Saint-Chamas, bois de félibres, huile sur toile, 60,5 × 92 cm
En Russie:
Saint-Pétersbourg, Musée de l'Ermitage :
La Route, 1901, huile sur toile, 30,7 × 48 cm
Le Déjeuner d'un ouvrier, huile sur toile, 55 × 46 cm
Le Labour, huile sur toile, 46 × 60,5 cm
- Creator:René Seyssaud (1867 - 1952, French)
- Dimensions:Height: 22.84 in (58 cm)Width: 26.38 in (67 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
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- Condition:Areas of paint loses to the margins, wear to the frame and loss top right.
- Gallery Location:Cotignac, FR
- Reference Number:Seller: LG/Seyssaud/Sea1stDibs: LU1430215459352
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