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Post-Impressionist Art

POSTIMPRESSIONIST STYLE

In the revolutionary wake of Impressionism, artists like Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin advanced the style further while firmly rejecting its limitations. Although the artists now associated with Postimpressionist art did not work as part of a group, they collectively employed an approach to expressing moments in time that was even more abstract than that of the Impressionists, and they shared an interest in moving away from naturalistic depictions to more subjective uses of vivid colors and light in their paintings.

The eighth and final Impressionist exhibition was held in Paris in 1886, and Postimpressionism — also spelled Post-Impressionism — is usually dated between then and 1905. The term “Postimpressionism” was coined by British curator and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 at the “Manet and the Postimpressionists” exhibition in London that connected their practices to the pioneering modernist art of Édouard Manet. Many Postimpressionist artists — most of whom lived in France — utilized thickly applied, vibrant pigments that emphasized the brushstrokes on the canvas.

The Postimpressionist movement’s iconic works of art include van Gogh’s The Starry Night (1889) and Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884). Seurat’s approach reflected the experimental spirit of Postimpressionism, as he used Pointillist dots of color that were mixed by the eye of the viewer rather than the hand of the artist. Van Gogh, meanwhile, often based his paintings on observation, yet instilled them with an emotional and personal perspective in which colors and forms did not mirror reality. Alongside Mary Cassatt, Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Gauguin, the Dutch painter was a pupil of Camille Pissarro, the groundbreaking Impressionist artist who boldly organized the first independent painting exhibitions in late-19th-century Paris.

The boundary-expanding work of the Postimpressionist painters, which focused on real-life subject matter and featured a prioritization of geometric forms, would inspire the Nabis, German Expressionism, Cubism and other modern art movements to continue to explore abstraction and challenge expectations for art.

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Style: Post-Impressionist
Period: 1910s
The Mill of Alphonse Daudet at Fontevieille, Lithograph after Vincent van Gogh
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the "Vincent Van Gogh" portfolio with text by Oskar Hagen published by Marees-Gesellschaft in Munich 1919. The portfolio consisted of 15 lithographic reproductions...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Lithograph

Figures in the Landscape - Etching by J. A. Flour - 1916
By Jules Adrian Flour
Located in Roma, IT
Figures in the Landscape is an original artwork realized by Jules Adrian Flour in 1916. Original etching on paper. The artwork is glued on cardboard. Hand-signed in pencil by the ar...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Etching

“Late in the Day”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on wooden panel by the Spanish artist, Thomas Campuzano y Aguirre. Seated man on a large rock with a hat with a woman with basket standing close by. Circa 1910. In very good o...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Oil, Board

La Loge (The Lodge) /// Post-Impressionist Figurative French Paris People Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Louis LeGrand (French, 1863-1951) Title: "La Loge (The Lodge)" Portfolio: Gazette des Beaux-Arts *Issued unsigned, though signed by LeGrand in the plat...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Drypoint, Etching, Intaglio

Dix Neuf Poèmes Élastiques
Located in Roma, IT
One of 40 copies on Hollande Van Gelder in 8° format including a second portrait of the author out of text. Rigid binding lightly wore on angles. Internal papers in perfect conditions. Edition: Paris, Au Sans Pareil Circulation: 50 copies of which 10 on Japon ancient and 40 on Hollande Van Gelder, plus 1050 on velin d' alfa Format: In-4° Pages: 52 Artist: Amedeo Modigliani, Blaise Cendrars
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Paper

Les Vendanges
Located in Sheffield, MA
Georges d'Espagnat French, 1870 - 1950 Les Vendanges Signed gdE (lower left)  Oil on canvas 67 by 43 in. W/frame 71 by 47 in. Born at Melun on 14th August 1870, Georges d’Espagnat...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Oil

'Study of a Young Woman', Karlsruhe, Berlin, Danish Post-Impressionist, Benezit
By Alfred Hermann Helberger
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right 'A.H.'; signed verso, "Alfred Helberger", inscribed "Gertrúd" and dated 1914. Bearing the original 1962 exhibition label from the Senator fur Folksbildung, Ber...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Le Piège à Oiseaux
Located in Sheffield, MA
Georges D'espagnat French, 1870 - 1950 Le Piège à Oiseaux Signed gdE (lower right) Oil on canvas 66 3/4 by 48 1/2 in. W/frame 70 ¾ by 52 ½ in. Born at Melun on 14th August 1870, G...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Oil

"Woman Carrying Wood Branches, " Pencil Drawing on Paper by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Woman Carrying Wood Branches" is an original pencil drawing by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro. It depicts a young woman doing farm work. It is framed in a handmade ...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Pencil, Paper

"Matinee a l'Odeon, " Original Etching signed by Maurice Asselin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Matinee a l'Odeon" is an original etching by Maurice Asselin. The artist signed and titled the print below the image. This piece is edition 13/30 and depicts three figures watching ...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Etching

'Spring Flowers in a Milk Jug', Copenhagen Academy of Fine, Charlottenborg
By Kraesten Iversen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right 'K.I.' for Kraesten Iversen (Danish, 1886 - 1955) and painted circa 1915. Born in Copenhagen in 1886, Kraesten Iversen first studied with Hendrik Gronvold at ...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

'Entente', Salon d’Automne, French Post-Impressionist Equestrian Figural Drawing
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Henry Ottmann' (French, 1877-1927) and painted circa 1915. Born in 1877 in the Loire Valley, Henri Ottmann first exhibited in the Salon de la Libre Esthétique ...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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India Ink, Pencil, Paper

The Scuffle
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator working in a painterly, narrative style as N. C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Dean Cornwell from the Golden Age Of Illustration. Surface quality is post impressionist with hea...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Oil

'Fishing Boat at Dawn', Danish Post-Impressionism, Weilbach Kunstleksikon
By Victor Qvistorff
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right: 'V. Qvistorff' for Victor Qvistorff (Danish, 1883-1953) and painted circa 1915. Born in Bredegaarde, Denmark, Victor Qvistorff first studied with Hans Andersen Brendekilde. Qvistorff then became a successful business-man and painted only part-time until 1931 when he dedicated himself full-time to his art. Although the author of a notable series of nude studies of his long-time model, Sally Philipsen, Qvistorff is known primarily for his marine scenes- particularly the jewel-like views of Copenhagen harbor...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

"Mlle Landsberg" (grade planche, pl. 16)
Located in Missouri, MO
"Mlle Landsberg" (grade planche, pl. 16), 1914 Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954) Signed and Numbered Lower Right Edition 12/15 Image size: 7 7/8 x 4 5/16 inches Sheet size: 17 11/16 x 12 1/2 inches With frame: 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches Henri Matisse came from a family who were of Flemish origin and lived near the Belgian border. At eight o'clock on the evening of December 31, 1869, he was born in his grandparents' home in the town of Le Cateau in the cheerless far north of France. His father was a self-made seed merchant who was a mixture of determination and tightly coiled tension. Henri had no clear idea of what he wanted to do with his life. He was a twenty-year-old law clerk convalescing from appendicitis when he first began to paint, using a box of colors given to him by his mother. Little more than a year later, in 1890, he had abandoned law and was studying art in Paris. The classes consisted of drawing from plaster casts and nude models and of copying paintings in the Louvre. He soon rebelled against the school's conservative atmosphere; he replaced the dark tones of his earliest works with brighter colors that reflected his awareness of Impressionism. Matisse was also a violinist; he took an odd pride in the notion that if his painting eye failed, he could support his family by fiddling on the streets of Paris. Henri found a girlfriend while studying art, and he fathered a daughter, Marguerite, by her in 1894. In 1898 he married another woman, Amelie Parayre. She adopted the beloved Marguerite; they eventually had two sons, Jean, a sculptor and Pierre who became an eminent art dealer. Relations between Matisse and his wife were often strained. He often dallied with other women, and they finally separated in 1939 over a model who had been hired as a companion for Mme. Matisse. She was Madame Lydia, and after Mme. Matisse left, she remained with Matisse until he died. Matisse spent the summer of 1905 working with Andre Derain in the small Mediterranean seaport of Collioure. They began using bright and dissonant colors. When they and their colleagues exhibited together, they caused a sensation. The critics and the public considered their paintings to be so crude and so roughly crafted that the group became known as Les Fauves (the wild beasts). By 1907, Matisse moved on from the concerns of Fauvism and turned his attention to studies of the human figure. He had begun to sculpt a few years earlier. In 1910, when he saw an exhibition of Islamic art, he was fascinated with the multiple patterned areas and adapted the decorative universe of the miniatures to his interiors. As a continuation of his interest in the "exotic", Matisse made extended trips to Morocco in 1912 and 1913. At the end of 1917, Matisse moved to Nice; he would spend part of each year there for the remainder of his life. A meticulous dandy, he wore a light tweed jacket amd a tie when he painted. He never used a palette, but instead squeezed his colors on to plain white kitchen dishes...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Etching, Drypoint

An Evening Walk - Post Impressionist Oil, Figures at Night by Henri Le Sidaner
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed post impressionist figurative oil on panel circa 1910 by sought after French painter Henri Le Sidaner. This absolutely stunning piece depicts elegant people taking an evening ...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Oil, Panel

'Roses with a Quimper Plate', Paris, Salon d’Automne, Fauve, Section d'Or
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Jais' for Jais Nielsen (Danish, 1885-1961) and dated 1913. An early twentieth-century, oil still-life of pink dog-roses shown loosely arranged in a cobalt blue glass vase, set beside two Breton tin-glazed earthenware plates, resting on an azure-turquoise tablecloth and contrasted against a coral-ochre background. An elegant, early work by this foundational Danish Modernist. Born in Denmark, Jais Nielsen initially studied at Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler under Kristian Zahrtmann and exhibited for the first time at the 1907 Autumn Salon at the Charlottenborg Palace. Nielsen participated in the early and groundbreaking, “Group of Thirteen" Modernist show, where his focus on dynamic figural painting and his bold use of color set him dramatically apart from his contemporaries. From 1907-11, Nielsen's use of 'primitive' Fauve colors would continue to reinforce his break with traditional Danish painting. During this period, he made study excursions to important art centres, including, in 1909, to Berlin. In 1911, he moved to Paris where he settled in the Latin Quarter near the Musée Cluny. His first formal Paris exhibition was at the Salon d’Automne of 1912. During this first Paris period, Nielsen attended meetings of the Section d’Or at the studio of Jacques Villon and, as a result, began to incorporate subtle, yet distinct, Cubist elements into his work.   With the outbreak of World War One, Nielsen returned to Copenhagen, taking with him both his increasing compositional sophistication and a thorough understanding of the principles of Modernism. During this period, ports, dance and circus life became subjects of interest and he painted many canvases in the style of Analytic Cubism, of which he became the earliest and, arguably, the finest Danish exponent. From 1915 onwards, Nielsen also created Cubist sculptures and, from 1922-28, was employed as a sculptor by the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory. Here, he produced a series of ceramic sculptures on Biblical themes which included the Good Samaritan and several versions of Jacob Wrestling with the Angel...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

'Italy, Sunny Afternoon', Charlottenborg Gallery, Paris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Vantore' for Erik Mogens Christian Vantore (Danish, 1895-1977) and dated 1914. A lyrical early twentieth-century, Post-Impressionist landscape showing a panorami...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

“Crashing Surf”
By William Reuben Clark Wood
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the American artist William Reuben Clark Wood. Signed lower left and dated 1913. The painting is it’s original wood, gesso and gold leaf frame 33.5 by 39.5 inches. WILLIAM REUBEN CLARK WOOD American, 1875–1915 A noted scenic landscape painterOil pastel on paper by the American artist Leon Dolice. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. The painting appears from my research to be the Banker’s Trust building completed in 1917 in New York City. The building still stands today with landmark status. In original Art Deco frame. Overall 18.75 by 14 inches. Condition of frame is very good to excellent. W.R.C. Wood - as he signed his name - was born in Washington, D. C. in 1875. He was a pupil of Samuel E. Whiteman (1860 - 1922), an earlier Baltimore artist...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

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