Jean Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin Art

Impressionist oil on canvas riverscape circa 1875 by sought after French painter Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin. This stunning piece d...

Impressionist pastel on board by French painter Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin. The piece depicts a view of landscape with trees to th...

A magnificent oil on canvas by Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin depicting boats moored on the River Seine in Rouen, with smoking chimney...

Pastel on canvas circa 1895. Signed lower right. Framed dimensions are 12 inches high by 15 inches wide. Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin was a highly accomplished artist, and the le...

Pastel on paper. Signed lower left. Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin was a highly accomplished artist, and the least known of the Impressionist masters. As a member of the movement's earliest grouping, he exhibited at the Salon des Réfusés of 1863, and (contrary to later opinion) made a significant contribution to the development of the new pictorial aesthetic, at gatherings of what was still known as the circle of 'Naturalists' in the Café Guerbois. Guillaumin came from a modest background, and occupied a lowly post at the French ministry of Ponts et Chaussées (Bridges and Highways). His spare time was devoted to painting. In 1863, aged 22, he attended the Académie Suisse, the haunt of numerous young artists seeking to rebel against the official, traditional art of the Salons and the École des Beaux-Arts, and where he met his lifelong friends Cézanne and Pissarro. He was made president of the paintings section of the Salon d'Automne, in 1905. Guillaumin's work featured in all of the Impressionist exhibitions at Galerie Nadar from the first show in1874 (with the exception of 1876 and 1879). His paintings were shown at the exhibition Between Heaven and Earth: Camille Pissarro and the Painters of the Oise Valley (Entre ciel et terre, Camille Pissaro et les peintres de la vallée...

An excellent 19th century oil on original canvas by Guillaumin describing the scene on the banks of the river in Paris. A simply brilliant piece signed lower left. 1881. The Quai de Bercy is a dock located along the Seine, in Paris, in the 12th district. It begins with the entrance of the Seine in Paris near the National Bridge This work is included in Volume II of the Catalogue Raisonne of Armand Guillaumin which is under preparation by Dominique Fabiani, Stéphanie Chardeau-Botteri and Jacques de la Béraudière. Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin...

Signed and dated '96 in ink Edition: c. 100 Trial proof before the edition Printed by Auguste Clot, Paris